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A Gareth Powell Publication

ANNUAL

1992

Guides * Comparisons * Reviews * Tutorials * Games

Registered by Australia Post Publication No NBG 6656

We will give you

Rfly Dollars Off

Geoworxs

All you do is send us your C64 or 128 GEOS manual
when you upgrade to GeoWorks Ensemble or
GeoWorks Pro for your IBM Compatible PC.

GEOS

GRAPHIC LNVIKONMI'N 1 OPERATING SYSTEM

Berkeley
Soft works

W hat is the deal? You send us your C64 or 128
GEOS manual and we give you $50.00 off the
price of GeoWorks Ensemble, (normally $ 199.00), or $50.00
off the price of GeoWorks Pro, (normally $249.00).

You pay only $149.00 for GeoWorks Ensemble or
you pay only $199.00for GeoWorks Pro.

W hat is GeoWorks? For those of you not in the
know, GeoWorks have staged a revolution in the
PC world. According to Info World USA 'GeoWorks is
what Windows 3.0 should have been.'

GeoWorks Ensemble has a very powerful word
processor ( Gareth Powell said you could use it for
DTP). It has a drawing program, a disk and file manag¬
er, a planner/diary, a communications package and
heaps of other applications that generally make life in
PC land much much easier. GeoWorks Pro has all this
as well as Quatro Pro SE, a professional level spread¬
sheet. (See Specs)

W hy is GeoWorks the software for your PC?

Because it is what Windows 3.0 should have
been. But don’t take our word for it, look at what the
experts are saying.

"Makes my PC as easy to use as the Mac”

Roland John Donovan , Writer's Digest

"I would be quite happy to use it as the principal
program on my computer."

Gareth Powell , PC Review Dec 1991

"Performance that Windows can only dream of."

PC Computing , USA

Pro Motion Advertising

So, why would anyone who owns a C64 or 128
and a PC want to buy GeoWorks? For the same reason
you bought GEOS in the first place.

It is a simple to use and very memory efficient pro¬
gram. It is a Graphical User Interface with menus, win¬
dows, gadgets, icons and all the things we have come
to expect off the BIG Guns like Amigas, Macs and
486’s with Windows.

Specifications

GeoWorks Ensemble

• PC GEOS

• GeoWrite word processor with power

• GeoDraw drawing program

• GeoManager disk & file manager

• GeoDex address book & label maker

• GeoPlanner schedule planner

• GeoComm communications program

• Support for Novell, LANtastic & other
networks

• Six software ‘Appliances’ designed for the
beginner, including Banner maker.

• Solitaire & Tetris Games.

• and much, much more.

GeoWorks Pro

Includes all of the above plus:

• Quatro Pro Special Edition, professional level
spreadsheet. Import/export Lotus 123 files.

System Requirements

• IBM XT, AT, PS/2, 386, 486 or 100% compatible

• 512k memory

• Hard disk with a minimum of 7Mb free (9Mb rec’d)

• CGA, MCGA, EGA, VGA, Super VGA or Hercules

video adapter and monitor. CGA, MCGA, Hercules
display in monochrome only.

AH Trademarks belong to the respective registered ownere.

WEA 962380

FIND OUT WHAT OVER 1,300,000
OWNERS ALREADY KNOW.

Here is my GEOS manual
Please give me fifty dollars
off the price of my copy of
GeoWorks Ensemble or
GeoWorks Pro for the PC.

Call now. (02) 457 8388

I enclose $149.00 for GeoWorks Ensemble. □
or I enclose $199.00 for GeoWorks Pro.

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Amiga Annual 1992 Contents

3 A Beginners Guide to your Amiga

Just starting out? Here's the article you need to
read to get you organised.

8 A2000 or A500 - That is the question.

Still trying to decide which Amiga to start out
with? We explain some of the whys and
wherefors in choosing the system that's right for
you.

12 Desktop Video for Beginners

Take your Amiga, a VCR and a RF-Modulator
and you're ready to add title screens to your
own videos. Add a genlock and you can overlay
Amiga graphics. We explain how it’s all done.

14 Word Processing

One of the most popular uses a computer is put
to. Andrew Farrell looks at some of the better
choices available - Quickwrite, Pen Pal,
FinalCopy, KindWords, Wordworth, ProWrite.

22 DCTV - Television Quality Graphics

It has the ability to animate 16.7 million colour
graphics in real time. It's also about one-tenth
the cost of alternative systems.

26 Alter Audio: Making Music with
MIDI

If you're thinking of making the leap into the
world of MIDI music, here's a first hand review
of Commodore's own package solution

30 What to do about Computer Viruses
- Fact or Fiction?

How do you catch one, where do they live, and
how do you get rid of them?

32 Computing by Phone

By connecting your Amiga to a telephone line,
a whole world of possibilities opens up. We
review top communication programs, BBS
etiquette, glossary, archives, on-line games,
bulletin boards.

40 1992 Australian Amiga Product

Guide

A comprehensive list of Amiga products
available in Australia, both software and
hardware. Everything from Accessories and
Accounting to Video Hardware and Word
Processing.

62 User Groups

Many Amiga users have combined together to
form clubs and groups. These offer many
services in return for a small annual
membership fee.

64 Public Domain Software - What is it?

A guided tour of the world of public domain.

6 5 Fish Disk List - Disks 400-550

The popular and extensive collection of Public
Domain software compiled by Fred Fish.

7 6 Amiga 3000 and Workbench 2.x

Compatibility Guide

Hard drive installation, system friendliness,
game ratings, with "fixes" for those that are
incompatible.

82 Games

ACAR Benchmarks - games come and go, but
the best linger on, setting standards that others
must strive to match.

Helpful hints to boost your performance in
many kinds of games.

91 CDTV - a whole new world of
entertainment and education

The New Grolier Electronic Encylopedia -
enough information to stack a bookcase.
Turbocharge your CDTV - handy add-on
options.

Games - Falcon, The Case of the Cautious
Condor, Xenon 2. Interactive books.

Stop Press - New Amigas expected soon

96 Advertisers Index

Amiga Annual 1992

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Preface

1 992
ANNUAL

TTOo©

I admit it! This >A/7/7L/a/ was never
intended to appear so late in the
year. I could tell you about the
time an airliner crashed into the
offices of Gareth Powell Publish¬
ing, or the time when a volcanic
eruption created havoc at the print¬
ers, or perhaps how the postman
was caught up in an international
terrorist operation when he was
kidnapped moments before deliv¬
ering your copy.

Instead, I thought it better to
look at the positive side of being
late. For example, we were able to
bring you a report on DCTV - an
amazing 24-bit (16.7 million col¬
our, television quality) digitiser/
display/paint package. This as¬
tounding device will even play full
24-bit animation in real time!

It would have been great to
include more on Workbench 2.0,
or perhaps talk more about the
wonderful new machines Commo¬
dore might ship this year. But at
the time of writing Workbench 2.0
was still in short supply and the
new machines remain nothing
more than strong rumours. How¬
ever, it is very likely the World of
Commodore Show in July will see
the launch of at least one new
model.

It has certainly been a very
odd year for the Amiga and no
doubt 1992 will see a time of sort¬
ing out in the Amiga world. In 1991
Commodore sold nearly one mil¬
lion machines - a third of what they
have sold since the original launch
in 1987. At the same time, the
Amiga has come under heavy fire
from the MS-DOS world as prices
continue to tumble.

Here at the Australian Com¬

modore and Amiga Review , we
believe the Amiga is more fun
than any PC. Software is a lot
cheaper than MS-DOS or Win¬
dows products and you don’t have
to worry about adding sound cards
to play games. If you decide to
splash out and buy a genlock,
sound digitiser or framegrabber,
you’ll also find Amiga add-ons are
a lot cheaper when it comes to
video based items. Heavyweight
software products are especially
affordable when compared to simi¬
lar programs on other platforms.

Amiga desktop publishing soft¬
ware is a classic example, coming
in at around a third the price of
competitors, with almostas many,
if not more, features than older
more established solutions. So
we’re confident the Amiga still rep¬
resents a great value for money
home computer. Amiga also re¬
mains the undisputed champion
for use in animation, presentation
video graphics and desktop video.
In Europe, it is the top selling
machine. In America, Amiga has
the video world sewn up. Down
under, things may be a little tough.
Hang in there Amigans, the new
hardware coming soon will put us
back on top!

Andrew Farrell

Editor

Since the last Amiga Annual, there
have been many exciting devel¬
opments in the world of the mighty
Amiga.

The first was just that: the
World of Commodore/Amiga ex¬
hibition which was held in Sydney
last year. This exciting event was
something of an eye-opener for
many people, who in the past had
not regarded the Amiga as a "se¬
rious" computer. After seeing the
incredible capabilities of the Amiga
at WOC, we now have many more
converts!

The various facets of the World
of Commodore/Amiga exhibition,
which was widely supported by
both local and international sup¬
pliers, demonstrated the Amiga
as the perfect all-round computer.
Applications shown covered the
full gamut from an entry level home
machine right through to ad¬
vanced, highly sophisticated ap¬
plications that even yet other plat¬
forms cannot achieve.

I'm sure this fact alone is what
makes the Amiga so popular - and
that popularity shows no signs of
diminishing.

Incidentally, if you missed the
World of Commodore/Amiga, an¬

other one is planned for this year!
Keep the dates free: July 3,4 and
5 at Darling Harbour Exhibition
Centre.

During the year, the three mil¬
lionth Amiga was sold - and, on a
per capita basis, Australia is one
of the Amiga's most successful
markets. For that, I have to thank
you most sincerely, for without
you demonstrating your faith in
the Amiga by buying it, we would
not have achieved the success
we have.

I must also express my deep¬
est than ks for the support given by
the media in general, including the
Amiga Annual. As you no doubt
know, the Amiga Annual is com¬
pletely independent of Commo¬
dore and is thus very objective in
its approach.

Other big events this year in¬
cluded the launch and success of
the Commodore Dynamic Total
Vision (CDTV) system which has,
of course, an Amiga computer as
its heart. We at Commodore firmly
believe multimedia is the direction
all personal computers will go in
the future - the Amiga is there
already!

Pat Byrne
Managing Director
Commodore Australia

AMIGA ANNUAL 2

Beginner's Guide

A Beginner's Guide
to your Amiga

Just starting out? Still trying to unravel Workbench or just
plain overwhelmed with computer jargon? Here’s the article
you need to read, by Amiga expert Andrew Leniart.

L ashed out and bought yourself
an Amiga then, did you? I re¬
member when I got my Amiga
500.1 paid for it with Bankcard at the
local Midi-Mouse computer store here
in Hoppers Crossing. It was a Starter
Pack complete with TV modulator, a
few software titles, including a
wordprocessor called TextCraft and a
game or two. I figured that a word
processor wouldn’t be much use with¬
out a printer so I got one of those too.

I didn’t have a hard drive back then
and (despite the convincing speech
the salesman put to me) I was adamant
that I would never need one either. I’m
sitting here writing this grinning from
the memories. Let me take you back to
that day so you can share why it’s so
amusing to me now.

Along the way I hope to share lots
of helpful information to get you
started.

The Big Purchase

Having paid for the machine with a
credit card, the first thing I had to do
was convince my wife that this was an
essential purchase. No way could I
come home and say to the better half,
U I was in the computer store and was
so impressed with the game which
was on display ( Interceptor , yeah!)
that I just had to have it.” Oh no, that
would be like committing suicide. I
had to sell this thing, make it seem like
it was the answer to all our financial
problems and not the start of them.

By the time I got home, I had it all
worked out. Luckily, the better half

was not home at the time, so I got in
the house, ripped open the boxes and
proceeded to set the thing up in front
of the telly.

There was polystyrene everywhere!
Tossing the manual to one side I
plugged in the power pack, hooked up
the telly and switched it all on. Noth¬
ing! Just a hand holding a disk.

Wait, a disk, that’s it! Digging
around the mess on the floor I located
the Workbench disk and slammed it in
DFO: The Amiga came to life and
pretty soon I had a Workbench up on
screen.

Just about then my wife arrived
home. "What’s all this then?" I took a
deep breath and went into my speech.

"This here is the answer to all the
problems we’ve been having with our
budgeting. It’ll balance our check
book, teach Amelia (our daughter) all
about computers and help you no end
with boring tasks like writing letters
and err ... like that."

"Yes dear," says Joy as she gives
me a knowing look and picks up the
box which Interceptor came in. "I
hope you didn’t pay for this out of our
Christmas savings."

She walks out of the room and I’m
left to go on experimenting with my
new toy. I’m off the hook. Well, at
least until the bankcard statement ar¬
rives at the end of the month!

Up and Running

I began to experiment with Work¬
bench. Clicking on icons here and
there, opening drawers, closing them
again, dragging them from one spot to
another. What a great machine. After
a few hours of playing around, blast¬
ing away aliens on a couple of public
domain games I got with the machine
and shooting some Migs out of the sky
with Interceptor. I eventually decided
to take a look at the Manual which
Commodore supplied with my pur¬
chase.

Like most people, you’ll probably
do what I did and first turn to the
(ahem) Users Manual supplied with
the machine. Now unless you have a
natural talent towards computers and
how they operate, you will probably
find this manual confusing for a be¬
ginner and incomplete in more ways
than one. It’s great for explaining
things like write protecting your disks
and goes into two pages of detail com¬
plete with photos on how to do it. But
when it comes to explaining
AmigaDOS, well, you’ll see for your¬
self soon enough.

(Commodore will start shipping the
Amiga with Workbench 2.04 during
1992. The new operating system has a
much improved manual - Ed.)

Help Is On the Way

One source of help is by doing what
you’re doing right now. Reading maga¬
zines such as Australian Commodore
and Amiga Review is a great way to
learn more about your new computer.
Each issue contains many articles and
tutorials written by people in the know.
Normally there’s plenty aimed right at
the beginner too.

Other magazines such as Megadisc
(a bimonthly magazine on a disk),
Amiga World, Amazing Computing and
a few others are also valuable sources
of information for a beginner.

AMIGA ANNUAL 3

Beginner's Guide

User groups can also provide an
excellent source of information be¬
cause you get the chance to meet with
people who share similar interests to
yourself. ( There is a list of user groups
in this Annual - Ed.)

Most user groups will give you free
access to thousands of public domain
programs which you can use and play
with to your heart's content while
spending nothing more than the price
of a disk. If you don’t know the mean¬
ing of public domain software, then
keep reading and you soon will. With
the prices of software these days, I can
guarantee you’ll love the idea. More
on that later.

Common Jargon

Now that you have this fab ma¬
chine, you have to start getting used to
terms that you’ll commonly hear when
like minded enthusiasts talk or write
about your machine. Computer users
tend to have a language all of their
own, so you’ll need to learn a bit of it
to understand what they’re on about.

It’s like when you had to learn French
at school, only heaps easier and lots
more fun.

Let’s have a look at some of the
more common ones you’ll come
across.

BOOTING UP - You do this with the
Amiga every time you switch on the
power and throw a Workbench disk
into the drive. Unless you have an
auto-booting hard drive attached to
your machine, you need to supply an
operating system using floppy disk*
That’s what the Workbench disk does.
The programs on this disk give you an
environment to work in and give you
the means to communicate with your
Amiga.

WARM BOOT - Giving the Amiga a
warm boot simply means to restart
(often called “to reset”) it by pressing
both Amiga keys along with the Ctrl
key. (Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga). This prac¬
tice is also sometimes referred to as a
three fingered salute.

COLD BOOT - Similar to a warm
boot, a cold boot simply means that
you actually have powered the ma¬

chine OFF and then powered back ON
to reset. When you switch on the Amiga
for the first time in the day and boot up
your Workbench, you are doing a 'cold
boot'.

CLI - Stands for Command Line
Interface. This is the Amiga’s equiva¬
lent to the way people talk to IBM
clones using their keyboard. By click¬
ing on a CLI or Shell icon on your
workbench, you get a window (or CLI)
open in which you can use AmigaDOS
commands to control and issue com¬
mands to your Amiga using the key¬
board. It’s the most powerful way to
control the Amiga and access all of its
features.

You can learn more about using the
CLI by obtaining back issues of Aus¬
tralian Commodore and Amiga Re¬
view where I have devoted over 12
months of tutorials on this subject in
my CLI Tutorial column.

FLOPPY DISK - Laugh if you want
to, but when I first got my computer,
I couldn’t for the life of me understand
why everyone insisted that these hard
little diskettes were called floppies.

Care of Your Amiga

Your Amiga is an expensive investment and worth a little time
and effort once a week or so to keep it in tip top shape. Here are
a few hints on how to ensure that you give yourself every possible
chance of getting the longest life span from your machine. Most
of the ideas will be recognised as common sense by readers that
have owned computers before, however they are listed here for
those of our readers that have never owned a computer in their
lives.

• When not in use, cover your Amiga with some type of plastic
covering to protect it from dust and accidental spillage of liquids
on it. Even a tom open garbage bag will do the trick, though there
are available covers made for this purpose which you can pur¬
chase from various computer stores and mail order companies.

• Heat can damage the Amiga’s internal components and
sometimes even warp plastic components on the outside of the
Amiga. With that in mind, don’t store the Amiga near a window
where a hot summer sun can shine down on it all day.

• If you are a smoker, as I am, try not to smoke when working
with your Amiga. It will cause your keyboard to fade and create
ugly stains on your monitor’s screen. (Talking from experience
here). The smoke particles can also create havoc with floppy
disks, causing read/write errors and loss of valuable information.

• Speaking of monitors, don’t have anything magnetic too

close to your monitor. Magnets will not damage your monitor, but
they can affect the monitor's display causing a loss of colour in a
certain area. If this happens you will have to have the monitor ’De¬
gaussed 1 .

• And on the topic of magnets, also keep them away from your
floppy disks. Computer disks can lose data if exposed to strong
magnetic fields.

• Give the Amiga and your accessories a good clean every
now and then. A wipe over with a moist cloth takes only a few
seconds and if done regularly, keeps the Amiga looking as new as
the day you brought it home.

• Likewise with your mouse, if it seems to be performing not

as well as it used to, then lint has probably collected on the metal
rollers inside which get moved by the ball at the bottom of it. Open
up the slide clip on the bottom of it and allow the ball inside to drop
out into your hand. You can then use a cotton bud dipped in
alcohol to give the metal rollers inside a bit of a clean. Give the ball
a wipe over with a dry cloth and remove any lint that may be stuck
to it. Put it all back together and you’ll find that Mickey will be as
good as new. □

Andrew Leniart may be contacted by writing to him direct at
P.O. Box 1335 Hoppers Crossing Vic 3030 or via modem on his
Bulletin Board Andy’s Attic! (03) 749-4897 Open 24 Hrs a day.

AMIGA ANNUAL 4

Beginner’s Guide

Now the big 5.25 disks were at least
soft and sort of floppy, but these 3.5
inch disks are made of plastic and
quite firm and hard.

Nevertheless, floppy disks they are
so you’d better start getting used to it.

(Of course, the round floppy bit is
inside the plastic square you see and
compared to the old solid platters used
for disk storage, they’re very floppy.)
Let’s add a touch more confusion ...

HARD DISK - Hard disks (often
called Hard Drives) don’t look like
floppy disks. As a matter of fact, they
are actually rather expensive pieces
of hardware that attach to the side of
the Amiga 500, like the Commodore
A590, or slot internally with the A2000
and A3000.

They do much the same thing as a
floppy disk, except they do it much
faster and depending on how large a
hard disk you get, have the capacity of
storing dozens of disks' worth of data
(or information) on them.

For example, as a rule of thumb
guide, a 20 Megabyte hard drive can
store the same amount of data as about
25 floppy disks. You can access that
information (on average) about five or
six times faster than you can from a
floppy disk and you can take it from
me, once you have worked with a hard
drive, you will never want to go back
to floppy disks again. Life is that
much simpler.

MONITOR - Does the same thing as
your telly does if you’ve bought an
Amiga 500 and are using the TV as
your screen. This does not need much
explanation as you will soon learn
what it is when the rest of the family
start abusing you for hogging the telly
all the time with your computer.

On a serious note, a monitor is to
my mind, an essential purchase to add
to your Amiga.

Not only are you spared the pain of
having to fight with the family every
time someone wants to watch TV, but
everything is a lot sharper and clearer
on a proper computer monitor. Com¬
modore have made it possible to use
the Amiga with a standard colour tel¬
evision, but think twice before spend¬
ing the money on a portable telly
rather than a proper monitor. I have a
Commodore 1084S monitor which was

an excellent purchase and have never
looked back.

RAM / RAD - Ram is simply a term
to describe your computer's memory.
It stands for Random Access Memory.
The Amiga can treat part of RAM like
a disk drive - this is called a RAM
drive. Anything you put into RAM
will be lost if the machine is reset.

A RAD on the other hand is pretty
much the same except that it is not as
volatile as RAM. Information stored
in RAD will normally still be there
after a warm reboot if you set up your
system correctly.

A RAD disk must be specially
'mounted' (made available) whereas a
RAM disk is there each time you boot
up Workbench.

HARDWARE Vs SOFTWARE - A sim¬
ple rule of thumb here is if you can
kick it, it’s hardware. Your Amiga is
hardware as is a printer or any other
device you plug into it.

A floppy disk is a bit tricky. It’s
called media, like a cassette tape.
However the information that is writ¬
ten to (or stored on) that disk is called
software. You need a disk drive (hard¬
ware) to use the information on the
floppy disk (software) so one is effec¬
tively useless without the other. Keep
that in mind before you shell out big
bucks for something, like a bargain
priced Laser Jet printer you see adver¬
tised in the Trading Post , you'll prob¬
ably need the right printer driver (a
program the Amiga uses to talk to
your printer).

RODENT/RAT -You’ll come across
these terms from time to time. They’re
actually talking about the mouse that
moves your pointer around.

MENUS - We use these in restau¬
rants to choose what we want to eat
and drink. On the Amiga though, we’re
talking about the pull down menus
you see at the top of the screen when
you hold down the right mouse button.

Workbench has its own set of menus
and so do most Amiga programs that
have been written to take advantage of
your mouse. If unsure, hold down
your right mouse button and move
your pointer to the top left side of the
screen. If the software uses menus,
they will show up there. When all else
fails, you can always read the manual

that came with the program.

PIRATE SOFTWARE - This term is
used to describe illegal copies of soft¬
ware. For example, if you get yourself
a copy of the latest commercial game
from a friend rather than buying it,
then you and your friend are guilty of
software piracy. There is no simpler
explanation.

BACKUP - Commercial software is
usually accompanied by a notice that
it is illegal for you to copy the disk
you’ve paid for. Now this is probably
quite true. So we never copy our pur¬
chases. We back them up. I’m told it
makes all the difference between
whether you are breaking the law or
not.

Legal or not legal, I believe it is not
unreasonable to be able to back up
your software purchases for your own
use. If I go out and spend $85 on a
game then I want to be able to safe¬
guard that purchase.

As long as I do not give a copy of
my backups to anyone, I don’t think
that anyone would jump up and down
about it.

An Introduction to
Workbench

Getting back to some of the goodies
that have come with your Workbench
disk, let’s have a look at the prefer¬
ences program.

You can customise Workbench to
look how you want using the prefer¬
ences program which is included on
the Workbench system disk. If you
haven’t played around with prefer¬
ences yet yourself, then have a fiddle
as you will discover that there are
many things that you can configure to
your own tastes.

Colours are naturally totally
configurable as is the positioning of
the Workbench screen.

You can change the shape and col¬
our of your pointer, increase or de¬
crease the speed of your mouse along
with many other things. But what hap¬
pens to all those settings that you
change once you finish and save your
setup?

Where does this new configuration
get sent to? Well, it all gets saved into

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a single file called System-Configuration in the Devs
directory of your Workbench disk. If you’re thinking that all
this is pretty much useless information, then bear with me
a minute or so and I think you’ll change your mind.

Let’s say you get hold of a disk that has a great colour set¬
up and a created pointer that absolutely blows your mind.
You can try to do the same thing for your own disks by using
preferences to recreate that fab pointer and colour combi¬
nation. But that’s really doing things the hard way.

There is a much easier way to do it and here’s how. Using
either the CLI or a directory utility, copy the disk's System-
Configuration file from the Devs directory of the disk that
has the fab settings over to your own disk's Devs directory.
This will over-write your current system configuration file
on your disk so be sure you are using a back-up and not an
original disk. Once that’s done, re boot your Amiga with
your disk and you will find that your disk now has the same
look and pointer that the one that impressed you did.

A thing to remember though is that you will still need to
go into preferences and change things like the printer driver
setting to make sure that you have the correct printer driver
selected.

The person that created the configuration that you’ve just
copied over may have been using a different printer.

You may also need to change the Date/Time settings if
they are incorrect along with a few other things.

Icon Editor

Yet another means of configuring the way your Work¬
bench looks is to change around the appearance of the icons

which appear on your Workbench screen.

You can use the icon editor supplied with your Work¬
bench disk to accomplish this, though I wouldn’t recom¬
mend it. IconEd is not very user friendly and requires quite
a bit of fiddling around with it to be able to get the hang of
all it’s features.

Personally, I would recommend some of the public
domain icon editors available which are far less compli¬
cated to use, and have quite a few more features to boot.

Again, to get a list of all the free public domain icon
editing utilities, get in touch with one of the public domain
outlets mentioned elsewhere in the Amiga Annual.

SAY

Firing up the 'Say' utility on your Workbench disk gives
you the means to make your Amiga talk to you. A talking
computer. What will they come up with next? To use SAY,
simply double click its Icon and two windows will open up,
one under the other. Click in the window titled 'Input
window' and type in a few words you would like the Amiga
to say to you. Try 'Hello there, this is your Amiga speaking'.

Once you hit return, the Amiga will speak the sentence
you typed back to you in a crude, but recognisable voice.
With a bit of practice you will learn how to modify the tone
of the Amiga’s voice and be able to make it sound more like
a male, female or even a robot. If you ever get into
programming on the Amiga, you will be able to learn how
to incorporate this speech facility into your own program¬
ming creations. □

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A2000 or A500

That is the Question

Is the Amiga 2000 just an overpriced Amiga 500 in a bigger
box? Still trying to decide which Amiga to start out with? Peter
Friend explains some of the whys and wherefores in choosing
the system that’s right for you.

T his is not a hardware review of
the A500 or the A2000. It’s a
look at the differences between
them, especially for people who are
wondering which model to buy or
whether to upgrade.

When the A2000 first appeared, I
assumed it must be some sort of amaz¬
ing turbo-powered SuperAmiga. Why
else would it be a thousand dollars
dearer? I was greatly puzzled to learn
that it had exactly the same CPU,
memory, graphics and sound chips as
the A500, and ran the same software at
the same speed. Was it a devious con
trick, an expensive toy for suckers
with more money than brains?

It’s now 1992. Prices have dropped,
but the cheapest A2000 is still around
a thousand dollars dearer than the
cheapest A500. Yet I’ve upgraded from
a A500 to an A2000. What made me
change my mind?

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A2000

Vital Statistics

These days, a standard A500 and
A2000 still have identical mouse, joy¬
stick, video, parallel, disk drive, au¬
dio, serial, and composite video ports,
and identical CPU, graphic and sound
chips.

The standard memory on an A2000
has increased to one megabyte, com¬
pared with an unchanged half mega¬
byte on an A500. Upgrading an A500
to a full megabyte is easily done, but
will cost you a little under $100. If
you’re planning any sort of serious
work on your Amiga, a full megabyte
is strongly recommended. More and
more software packages (and even
games) need a megabyte to run, while
others have some features disabled
when running on a half megabyte
machine.

The physical design of the two
Amigas is very different. The A500 is
just a large bulky keyboard
with all the electronics in¬
side it, whereas the A2000
has a separate system box
and keyboard and looks
more like a traditional PC.
They actually take up about
the same amount of desk
space, because the A2000’s
system box can sit under the
monitor.

The A2000 looks a lot
tidier, because nearly all its
cables connect neatly out of
sight at the back of the sys¬
tem box, whereas the A500
can end up looking like a
1 tangle of spaghetti. Because
of all those cables connected

to it, the A500 keyboard is also rather
unwieldy to move around. If you some¬
times want to move the keyboard to
one side, or like to type with it sitting
on your lap, the separate keyboard of
the A2000 is a lot more convenient.

Feel The Difference

But the most important difference
between the two Amigas is the almost
invisible one: expandability.

The A500 has just two expansion
ports. The most commonly used is the
internal expansion slot, inside the lit¬
tle door on the underside of the key¬
board. This is where most memory
expansion boards plug in, as well as
things like the KCS Power PC board.

On the left side of the keyboard is
the external expansion slot. As the
name implies, things plugged in here
sit mostly outside the A500, so this
slot is used by things too bulky to fit in
the internal expansion slot, such as the
A590 hard disk.

The A2000 has no fewer than nine
expansion slots of various types, all
internal. There’s a video slot, mostly
used for genlocks or Flicker Fixers. A
co-processor slot, for boards like the
2620 (a 16 MHz 68020 with maths co¬
processor and 2 Mb of 32-bit memory)
or 2630 (a 25 MHz 68030 with maths
co-processor and 2 Mb of 32-bit
memory). And three Amiga slots, two
Amiga/PC-AT slots, and two PC-XT
slots. The PC slots are mostly of inter¬
est if you’re using something like the
BridgeBoard to run PC software.

But even if you think ‘PC’ is a
swearword, you still have five Amiga
slots to play with. Hard disks, memory
expansion, modems, local area net¬
works, digitizers, and almost anything
else can plug in here.

Decisions, decisions... So which
model should you buy? It depends
entirely on what you’re planning to do
with your Amiga.

If you ’re wanting to play games, do
simple word processing, or teach your¬
self BASIC, then an A500 is perfectly
adequate. The same goes if you’re on
a tight budget, or are buying your first
ever computer without any clear idea
of what you’ll use it for. Why waste

AMIGA ANNUAL 8

A2000 vs A500

money on expansion slots you’ll prob¬
ably never use? Perhaps you might
buy some memory expansion one day,
or even a second disk drive, but these
will happily plug into an ordinary
A500. In fact the money you’ll save by
buying an A500 will more than pay for
that memory and disk drive.

On the other hand, are you inter¬
ested in ‘heavy duty’ applications like
animation, desk top publishing, video
and sound digitizing, C programming?
If you look at a software package and
it says ‘minimum of one megabyte
required, hard disk recommended’,
think very carefully about what ex¬
pansion hardware you’ll need on your
system. If you’ve already got a memory
upgrade in the internal expansion slot
and a hard disk in the external expan¬
sion slot, you could be in trouble if you
want to add something else later.

What’s more, a completely ‘full’
A500 will cost you more than an
equally powerful A2000. Disk drives,
hard disks, and memory expansion are
usually cheaper for an A2000 than an
A500. This is partly because external
A500 expansion naturally needs boxes
and cabling, to protect you and your
Amiga from electrical damage. For
internal expansion, the larger size of
A2000 boards allows use of standard
(ie: cheaper) components. Some A500
internal expansion boards are marvels
of miniaturisation, but such clever
design often means higher develop¬
ment and manufacturing costs. And
some types of expansion are difficult
or impossible to find for an A500.
Very few companies offer 68020 or
68030 co-processor boards, and I
haven’t seen anyone selling an A500
equivalent of the Flicker Fixer, for
example. (ICD have just released such
a device - See review in this issue.)

After reading the above, you may
feel more informed but still worried
about making the wrong choice. Don’t
lose too much sleep over it. If you buy
an A500 and later discover an A2000
was what you really needed, upgrad¬
ing is easy if not cheap. Second-hand
A500 systems are currently selling
very readily at between two thirds and
three quarters of their new price. Sure,
you lose a few hundred dollars, but at

least you’re not stuck with a machine
you can’t use and can’t sell. (Hands up
everyone out there with a worthless 8-
bit computer gathering cobwebs in the
wardrobe.)

On the other hand, if you buy an
A2000 and later realise that an A500
was all you needed, smile through
clenched teeth and don’t tell anyone.
The sale price of your A2000 is un¬
likely to leave you with much spare
change from the purchase price of a
new A500 system.

Upgrading - My
Experiences

I was one of those A500 users start¬
ing to run out of expansion space. One
megabyte wasn’t enough to run my
planned three-hour Deluxe Paint III
animations. And the twenty mega¬
bytes on my A590 was filling up more
quickly than expected.

I was vaguely considering a two
megabyte RAM upgrade for the empty
sockets in the A590, but knew it was
only a stop-gap solution.

But then, at a computer exhibition,

I happened to see an A2000 with a
Flicker Fixer and a VGA monitor.
Wow! Now I knew why the interlace
graphics mode was put on the Amiga.
The quality and clarity of the 640x480
screen was astonishing. I’ll talk about
the Flicker Fixer later, but basically it
gives you a beautiful steady interlace
screen instead of the horrible flickery
interlace screen you get on a standard
Amiga and monitor. Because I
spend long hours at the Amiga,
(writing articles like this one), a
rock steady interlace screen means
improved productivity. Twice the
number of horizontal screen lines
means twice as many lines of text
on screen for example.

I was hooked.

After saving furiously for a few
months, I sold the A500 and or¬
dered an A2000 with Flicker Fixer
and multisync monitor. Note that I
said ‘ordered’, not ‘purchased’. To
my innocent surprise, the dealer ]
didn’t have half a dozen A2000s
sitting in the back office waiting to
be sold. Unlike A500s, which can

be and are prepackaged in cartons all
ready for customers to take away,
A2000s come in many different op¬
tions. It’s unlikely that your dealer
will have all the bits in stock for the
particular configuration you require.
Expect a wait of around five business
days, particularly if you want any
unusual boards.

A whole week without an Amiga! It
was a traumatic and frightening expe¬
rience and the withdrawal symptoms
nearly killed me. But eventually my
new system arrived, and after a brief
fight with a defective keyboard, it was
all connected and running.

Installing software on the hard disk
was predictably painful, but no worse
than for any other hard disk. The only
unexpected catch was discovering that
the hard disk was split into a small
partition called DH0: and a very large
Fast File System (FFS) partition called
FS0:. This confused a few install pro¬
grams which valiantly tried to put
everything onto DH0: and naturally
ran out of space.

This particular hard disk partition¬
ing structure is due to the A2090A
Hard Disk Controller, which needs to
boot from a non-FFS partition. When
the new A2091 replaces the A2090A
in new A2000s, the entire hard disk
will be FFS, as is already the case with
A590s and some other models.

Fixing Flicker

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A2000 vs A500

Flicker Fixer (also known as a Display
Enhancer or Deinterlacer) is a board
which gets rid of that horrible flicker¬
ing in interlace graphics mode. It’s a
very popular upgrade for A2000 own¬
ers. Commodore like it so much they’re
importing it from America and selling
it at almost cost price. That’s right
folks, Commodore will sell it to you at
less than the American retail price.
Gasp, shock, horror.

Why are they doing this?

Because the Flicker Fixer will cer¬
tainly lead to increased A2000 sales,
and quite rightly so. Before you rush
out and buy one though, there are two
minor catches which might adversely
affect you.

Firstly, you can’t connect your old
1084S monitor to Flicker Fixer, as it
needs either a VGA or multisync moni¬
tor. You don’t need to throw the 1084S
away though; the normal Amiga video
port is unaffected, so you can have two
monitors attached (and even running
simultaneously) if you want to.

The other catch is due to the way
Flicker Fixer works internally. It re¬
freshes every horizontal scan line on
the monitor screen 50 times a second,
thus giving a perfect steady picture,
unlike the standard Amiga interlace
video signal, which refreshes each
alternate horizontal scan line every
alternate cycle, ie: 25 times a second.
However, Flicker Fixer is still only
being fed the same data as the standard
interlace signal, so it can still only
change alternate horizontal scan lines
on alternate cycles. Confused? All it
means is that if a screen object is
moving faster than 25 times a second,
its alternate horizontal scan lines
(which are only being changed on
alternate cycles) go out of synchroni¬
sation, and the screen object appears
to spread out slightly into two ghost¬
like objects.

If you’re running software that
doesn’t have ultra-fast moving graph¬
ics then you won’t even notice this.
But if you’re a arcade games buff, you
may be immensely irritated at the
sight of bullets and fast aliens sud¬
denly ghosting strangely on screen.

Because arcade games all run in
non-interlace mode anyway, the prob¬

lem would be solved if you could still
display the standard Amiga video sig¬
nal when you wanted to play games,
but use Flicker Fixer when you wanted
to do ‘serious’ stuff. And with a little
thought, this is quite easy to arrange.

I mentioned above that you can’t
use the 1084S monitor with standard
Microway Flicker Fixer, although you
can still use it with the standard video
port. So if you already own a 1084S,
just keep it when you buy Flicker
Fixer and a VGA monitor. You can
then run either monitor (or even both),
depending on what software you want
to run.

But if you don’t already own a
1084S, it’s rather expensive to buy
one just for playing games. So instead,
when you buy your Flicker Fixer, be
sure to buy a multisync monitor rather
than an ordinary VGA monitor.
Multisync monitors can accept and
display a variety of video signals,
including both VGA (which Flicker
Fixer produces) and analog RGB
(which the standard Amiga video port
produces).

You can plug the monitor cable
into the standard video port when you
want to play a game, and into the
Flicker Fixer port when you want the
interlace graphics (although note that
you will need an adaptor cable to do
this, as the two ports have different
sorts of plugs). Apart from the minor
nuisance of cable swapping, this is a
simple and convenient solution, giv¬
ing you the advantages of both graphic
modes.

The Sound of Silence

There is one other surprise in store
if you get a VGA or multisync moni¬
tor; because they’re designed for bor¬
ing old PCs, they don’t have sound
input sockets or speakers. Being used
to the 1084S, it never occurred to me
that my new monitor might have no
sound facilities, and I was genuinely
surprised when I couldn’t find any
audio plugs.

If you only use your A2000 for
business purposes, this may not be a
problem, as it’s quite likely that your
software won’t use sound anyway.

But if you do want sound, and you
probably do, you’ll need to connect
your Amiga to some sort of sound
system. Many music buffs keep their
Amigas connected to their stereos all
the time, even if they have 1084S
monitors.

Alternatively, you can buy a cheap
mini-amplifier and extension speak¬
ers, available in many electronics and
stereo shops. Either way, you’ll notice
vastly improved sound, because the
speakers are larger and better quality
than monitor speakers. The stereo ef¬
fect, barely noticeable on monitor
speakers, also improves dramatically.

The choice is yours

Only you know what you will be
using your Amiga for, so only you can
decide which model and what expan¬
sion you should buy, both now and in
the future. The most important thing is
planning. Don’t just wander into the
nearest computer store and buy the
first thing a salesperson shows you.

Think about what you want to do
with your Amiga. Games, word
processing, graphics, animation, fi¬
nancial accounting, music composi¬
tion, sound digitizing, desktop pub¬
lishing? All of the above? Discuss
your plans with your dealer. If they
can’t or won’t help you, go to a dealer
who can and will.

Both the A500 and A2000 are great
machines, but you’ll save yourself
money, time and heartache, by getting
the model that’s just right for you. □

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A1000 the first Amiga - now
discontinued

AMIGA ANNUAL 10

Phoenix video support!

We are able to supply a complete range of
equiptment to make your Amiga a video studio.

Electronic Design Genlocks

PAL composite or Y/C (Super VHS) systems

These are German made high quality genlocks.

Paint, Digitise and Display systems

DCTV breaks the 4096 colour barrier P.O.A.

Impact Vision 24, an all in one professional
standard video card for the A2000/A3000 P.O.A.
As a Commodore dealer, let us quote for your video
system including computer. We can tailor a system
for you.

Colour Digitiser
by Phoenix

Digitise straight from a colour camera or paused
VCR with no need for filter wheels

Provision for both SVHS and composite input
Outstanding quality and convenience

Complete with ColourView Software - $499

Send for a disk with examples - $5.

A 1000/Phoenix board owners should order parallel
port adapter - $35

Compatible with A3000, System 2.0
and Digiview software

2Mb Chip
RAM for A500

This kit brings the A500 up to A3000
standards with 2Mb of chip RAM.
Installation requires the A500 to be
opened up. Kit uses 4 of 1 Mb x 4
DRAM (DIP) with a 3 position switch
to access l/2Mb chip, l/2Mb Chip + 1/2
Mb fast or 2Mb chip RAM.

Installation not suitable for beginners
Kit without RAM & Agnus $ 119.00
Kit with RAM only $319.00

Kit complete $399.00

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ICD Flicker Free Video $495

Compact deinterlacer for A500.

ICDAdspeed $399

14Mhz accelarator, replaces 68000 and
gives speed up by 100%.

ICD IDE H/Drive Interface $199

Enables use of IDE or AT hard drives.

Phoenix SCSI Box with cables $129
Add a second SCSI drive to a A590 or
any Amiga with a SCSI port. Complete
with power, LED and fan.

8Meg Boards for AlOOO’s

OK - unpopulated $349

IMeg populated $419

2Meg populated $499

Kickstart Swap Board $59

3 ROM Sockets + Ribbon Cable

Video Breakout Box - Scart $89

SVEIS and RCA inputs and outputs
Connect equipment with any type of
connector

Audio Digitisers - Mono $50

Analogue Joystick Adapters $30

Use IBM joystick with
the latest flight simulators

Screen Filters $25

Reduces Interlace flicker

3.5"Internal Floppy Drives
A500 $179

A2000/300Q $159

A1000 $189

Micromouse boards $15

Repair Commodore mice

Phoenix Board

Replacement Motherboard -AMIGA 1000
Now shipping from stock

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an motherboard, 68881/2 Socket, Drive Swap Switch, Sockets for
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Dn main board, A2000 Expansion Slot & Video Slot, Connector for

SMb Daughterboard, Battery Backed Clock. - $895

Super Phoenix Board (2Mb chip RAM) - $1095

2Mb chip RAM upgrade Kit (with trade of existing chips) - $285

Internal Hard Drives - These are Quantum SCSI Hard Drives that
fits inside your original AMIGA 1000 case. 52Mb - R-O.A.
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Accessories SCSI Extension Cable - $30

8Mb Daughter Board OK - $250

Right angled brackets for video port - $45

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Desktop Video

Desktop Video For
Beginners

Take your Amiga, a VCR and an RF-Modulator and you’re ready
to add title screens to your own videos. Throw in a few hundred
dollars for a genlock and you can overlay Amiga graphics on your
own videos! How’s it all done? Andrew Farrell explains.

A dding titles to your home video
gives it that real professional
look. Personal computers now
offer this capability for a fraction of
the cost of dedicated titling equip¬
ment, with the added benefit of nu¬
merous other video effects.

One of the most popular choices is
the the Commodore Amiga. Unlike
most computers, the Amiga is de¬
signed to work with video. The cost of
hardware to allow combining Amiga
graphics - in the form of titles or
credits - with video is far less than
most other machines.

A Genlock is the vital component
which will determine the quality you
achieve. It allows the computer gener¬
ated image and source video signal to
be correctly synchronised and mixed.

Genlocks come in many shapes and
sizes. Less expensive models offer the
very barest of functions; allowing com¬
puter generated titles to be overlayed
on the your video with a simple fade
and dissolve facility.

One such model is the RocGen
RG310CP which retails for $399. It
connects directly to the RGB video
out port on the Amiga. Two RCA type
plugs allow the video in and out to be
connected. You can dissolve in and
out the computer graphics, as well as
fading in and out the source video.
There’s also a connector for future
addition of a chromakey device. This
will enable you to create weather map
type effects, overlaying real people
with computer graphics.

More exotic brands offer a host of

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additional features. For $2495 you
can buy the VidTech Videomaster
which handles S-VHS and composite
formats as well as RGB. The unit also
has an in-built RGB splitter which
allows the computer with a separate
digitiser, such as the $299 Digiview
Gold , to capture still video images in
full colour. Using additional software
these digitised pictures can be ma¬
nipulated in the most amazing ways. It
is even possible to animate the cap¬
tured graphics.

On the Videomaster’s front panel
there are separate slide controls to
fade in the Amiga and source video.
There is also a selection of four differ¬
ent wipes, including horizontal, verti¬
cal, circle and inverted. In perform¬
ance tests, the VidTech unit was
amongst the best around, and is cur¬
rently in use by a number of profes¬
sional installations.

Video Resolution

Everyone talks about the resolution
or number of picture elements a com¬
puter can generate as a measure of its
usefulness in video applications. There
is very little point in vastly exceeding
the resolution of your chosen video
format.

The Amiga will happily churn out
up to 704 x 580 full overscan inter¬
laced images - more than adequate for
most video applications. Although the
hardware permits only 16 colours in
this mode, many paint programs are
able to use HAM mode which offers
4096 colours in lower resolutions. With
the addition of a video display en¬
hancer for around $1000 (with ru¬
mours of a low cost version coming
soon), you can display 16.7 million
colours, making using of the full col¬
our bandwidth of composite video.
These enhancers are often referred to
as 24 bit boards since they can display
2 to the power of 24 colours.

The Amiga has been responsible
for graphics in commercials, televi¬
sion programs and corporate videos
all over the world. It is a very capable
machine when it comes to colour
graphics, and has been used by the
various television stations around

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Desktop Video

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Deluxe Paint - used for titling

Australia for generating titles, animated logos, and full
screen animation.

In the United States,
the Amiga stands unchal-
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ity of the Newtek Video
\V^J0‘YV* Toaster. This US$2495

device offers the kind of
_ digital video effects, im¬
age processing and mixing, and video titling capabilities
which were only previously available on equipment costing
over ten times the price. Unfortunately the product has
received such wide acclaim in the U.S. that the manufac¬
turer is flat out keeping up with local orders. A PAL version
of the Toaster could be some time off, in fact, it may never
happen.

A spin off of this continuing success is the power and
number of Amiga based video titling and animation pack¬
ages is expanding quickly. Indeed, the range is now quite
enormous. Many packages offer a vast number of wipes and
transitions for graphics and titles. Programs range from the
likes of Deluxe Paint at $99, to around $500 for Scala\ a full
blown video presentation system with dozens of back¬
grounds, fonts and useful art, 40 text and screen wipes and
a very easy to use screen interface.

Possibilities

What might begin as a simple titling system can easily be
expanded to handle the same sort of demands as high end
production facilities. Extra disk storage and memory ex¬
pand the capability of the Amiga to produce animations.

You can also speed up the machine with optional accel¬
erator cards. These help make animations smoother and

decrease rendering times of complex scenes.The greatest
difficulty in purchasing the right equipment is finding a
computer or video store able to demonstrate the capabilities
of this equipment. □

Products mentioned in this storv:

VidTech Videomaster

from: Color Computer Systems

(09) 349 6492

RocTec RocGen

from: Matrix

(02) 550 4688

Deluxe Paint

from: Electronic Arts

(075) 911 388
Scala and DigiView Gold
from: Computermate

(02) 457 8388

ATonce-Plus

286-16 Mhz IBM-AT-Emulator
Amiga 500/500-plus and 2000

Incl. 512k RAM - optional 80287 co-processor
6 Mbyte Extended/Expanded memory
supports hard drives and WB 2 compatible
VGA-EGA-CGA Graphics - Multitasking

Golden Gate

386sx 20Mhz Bridgeboard
Amiga 2000 and 3000

Inch 512k RAM - optional 80387 co-processor
6 Mbyte Extended/Expanded memory
supports all graphics modes and hard drives
WB 2 compatible and supports ISA slot standard

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Phone (02) 639 7718 Fax (02) 639 5995

AMIGA ANNUAL 13

Wordprocessing

Second only to playing games, wordprocessing is one of
the most popular uses a home computer is put to.
ANDREW FARRELL outlines the advantages
of electronic word crunching and looks at some
of the better choices available.

O nce you’ve used a
wordprocessor you will never
turn back to the clunky old
typewriter. Gone are the days of hav¬
ing to white-out mistakes, or waste
near-perfect pages of typing. Apart
from the ability to easily correct mis¬
takes before they hit the page, a
word processor also offers many
extra features.

It’s simple to move entire para¬
graphs from one place to another,
replace every occurrence of a word
with another more appropriate se¬
lection, have the computer check
your spelling and grammar and pro¬
vide you with synonyms for cliched
adjectives you wish to dispense
with.

Wordprocessors also offer trick
functions, like sending one person¬
alised letter to many different peo¬
ple, without having to retype the
letter many times. You can even keep
lists of information or create news¬
letter style documents complete
with graphics and various styles of
writing.

All this is possible with packages
selling for under $300. An entry level
wordprocessor at around $99 of¬
fers all of the important functions
that make writing letters, reports,
articles or entire books a breeze -
providing you remember to save
your work often!

What’s WYSIWYG All
About?

In recent years we have seen the
introduction of so-called WYSIWYG
wordprocessors. This term applied
originally to desktop publishing soft¬
ware which provided designers with
an on-screen representation of how a
page would look. WYSIWYG stands
for What You See Is What You Get.
Well, most of the time this is true.
WYSIWYG wordprocessors format
your page to show you exactly how the
finished output will look.

In the early days formatting codes
had to be embedded in text using
complex sequences of obscure key
presses. Today wordprocessing is a
far simpler process, with simple pull

down menus and gadgets to alter for¬
matting or carry out complex changes
to a document.

The Amiga now has a very solid
range of programs to choose from, all
of which perform as well as many MS-
DOS based wordprocessors. In fact,
when compared to Windows based
products, Amiga wordprocessors of¬
ten out-perform even the most exotic
Windows packages. However, there
can be no disputing that WYSIWYG
wordprocessing is a tad slower than
simply bashing in chunks of text and
worrying about the formatting latter,
which is how this publication was
produced. So, in choosing a
wordprocessor to suit your needs, it’s
important to establish whether seeing
your text formatted exactly as it will
appear on the page is really that im¬
portant.

If you have a 30,000 word book to
prepare, pretty screen layout is of
little consideration, whereas power
features such as footnotes, grammar
checking and thesaurus, powerful
search and replace functions and the
like may be more useful.

In the following guide, I’ve pro¬
vided a rough overview of each
wordprocessor’s special features.

ProWrite - $299

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It was guaranteed bug free and I have
never witnessed a ProWrite induced
system seizure. New Horizons have
continued to develop ProWrite to the
latest release, version 3.2, which has a
slick, clean, Workbench 2.0 look and
a host of improvements. ProWrite uses
the tried and tested drag-the-icon
method of installation. A simple to
use System Mover program is sup¬
plied for installing extra fonts and
printer drivers supplied on the
ProWrite Extras disk.

Multiple documents are handled
with ease, each opening an additional
window complete with sizing gadget
and scroll bars. Setting screen resolu¬
tions must be done from Workbench
using TOOL TYPES. A pleasant un¬
cluttered layout with editing power
considerably faster than earlier at¬
tempts at Amiga WYSIWYG
wordprocessors.

ProWrite scrolls text several lines

at a time, making the display jerky and
awkward. However there are plenty of
smart bells and whistles. You can sort
paragraphs, turn text into upper, lower
or mixed cases and apply or retain
formats and styles. ProWrite can Load
and Save ASCII files as well as their
own proprietary format, roughly fol¬
lowing the IFF standard. ProWrite is
supposed to handle Professional Page
files too, but tests we carried out found
this to be too inconsistent to be of
serious use. Excellent TAB support is

included, with all kinds of justifica¬
tion provided for including decimal.
Sophisticated column control provides
up to five in total complete with ad¬
justable gutter. It’s these kind of fea¬
tures that start to sound like you could
do some serious publishing - however
if you plan on importing graphics,
formatting becomes a nightmare.
ProWrite has no support for any kind
of text run around graphics.

A spell checker is available, al¬
though its a very American dictionary

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and not so intelligent guessing of what
the correct word should have been. A
thesaurus provides a powerful look¬
up facility so you can continue finding
new synonyms from each new word
list. ProWrite enables you to work
back down the hierarchy. ProWrite
offers a clean, well arranged output
menu. Getting good looking print out
of ProWrite requires a good quality
printer.

ProWrite is a very reliable, slick
product which benefits from a long
history and a solid, carefully planned
series of upgrades. The program per¬
forms flawlessly. A full AREXX in¬
terface along with the ability to work
in columns is handy, although
ProWrite could do with some enhance¬
ments in the areas of output and graphic
handling. For more information re¬
garding ProWrite call Computermate
on (02) 457 8388.

QuickWrite - $99

No thrills wordprocessing - there
are no fancy fonts, but there are styles
- Bold, Italic or Underlined. And you
can take advantage of your printer’s
built-in fonts from the print menu.
This is a wordprocessor for processing
words and not much else. When it
comes to formatting your text, you
have control of margins, headers,
footers, title pages, different pitch and
spacing settings. Using TABs is easy
using an on-screen old ruler - you just
place a marker wherever you want a
TAB point to be.

Justification is achieved by high¬
lighting text and clicking the appro¬
priate gadget in the ruler or using a
pull down menu or key short-cut! There
are a few ways to do most things, not
to mention a powerful AREXX port if
you want to control QuickWrite from
another application.

At any point in your document you
can insert a page break, date, count,
time or page number. The format of
these items can be altered using an¬
other pop up menu. Trying to load a
file type QuickWrite can’t handle will
result in a requestor telling you this is
a bad file type - the program doesn’t
just GURU out on you like some other

Pen Pal - $229.95

Once a very popular choice, Pen
Pal has now grown a little long in the
tooth with few if any improvements
since its release. Pen Pal is a full
WY SI WIG wordprocessor whose best
features include excellent documen¬
tation and good graphics support, in¬
cluding the ability to draw within the
program.

A smart mouse pointer indicates
the function of each gadget on the
screen as you move over it. Graphics
may be imported and sized or cropped.
Text can be made to flow around the
graphic or run against it along a straight
margin. HAM images may be used.
Text can be different colours, and
empty or filled boxes or lines of vary¬
ing thickness can be created in docu¬
ments. Most of the program environ¬
ment may be controlled using a series
of preferences menus.

Up to four documents can be opened

at once. There is a 100,000 word dic¬
tionary. Word, sentence and character
counts are available. Adjusting mar¬
gins, text positioning, style and font
type is all very simple to do. All types
of justification are handled along with
subscripts and superscripts. Page num¬
bering and dating is supported and you
can view the entire page prior to print¬
ing. Mail merge and reporting options
are available too - along with a simple
list manager for filing. Pen Pal seems
to excel at reports - although it would
have been nice to see some facility to
produce various graphics from the list
manager for inclusion in documents.

Missing from the list of features is
a thesaurus and auto-save option. Also,
the program insists on using its own
in-built colour scheme when first run,
although you can change this later.
For more information call Dataflow
on (02) 310 2020.

wordprocessors.

QuickWrite can save text in its own
format, as ASCII or in Professional
Page format (styled text is preceded
by a code which will make it the same
in Professional Page). You can also
import ASCII with CR’s after each
paragraph or line and fix it up so you
can edit the text as complete para¬
graphs. QuickWrite will also import
Professional Page text and convert
the codes into the correct text styles.
Mouse control during editing is fast
and intuitive. You can double click to
select a word. A third click selects the
sentence, whilst one more returns you
to a normal cursor. ALT-double-click
grabs a paragraph, ALT-scroll up or
down moves up or down one screen
respectively. Fast perusing of text is a
snack.

For those involved with figures,
there is decimal TAB support, helping
you align columns of numbers with¬
out too much fiddling. There’s also a
50,000 word spelling checker and you
can add new words. The document
information function provides critical

facts such as the number of words,
characters, paragraphs, lines, pages,
average word and sentence length and
a readability grade.

QuickWrite can open in a number
of resolutions, or on Workbench. Full
support for Workbench 2.0 is included
along with additional features. The
print menu handles multiple copies,
collates and print back to front. There ’ s
a merge function to enable a list of
names and addresses or any other in¬
formation to be replaced into a stand¬
ard letter. All you do is enclose the
field names in your document in dou¬
ble angle brackets. At print time these
fields are replaced with the entries in
a separate data file. Now you’re ready
to start your own “Readers Digest”
campaign.

QuickWrite is a solid wordprocessor
which although lacking some of the
fancy features other packages offer,
beats them all on reliability. If you’re
looking for a good entry level
wordprocessor which you may up¬
grade down the track, QuickWrite could
be the answer. I was impressed by its

AMIGA ANNUAL 16

Wordprocessing

speed, ease of use, excellent docu¬
mentation and clean screen layout.
Certainly the best in its class. For
more information call Computermate
on (02) 457 8388.

Wordworth - $299

Inside the bookshelf box you’ll find
three disks, a 266 page ring-bound
manual and quick-reference card. A
function key guide on a sticker may be
cut out and placed near the relevant
keys. Installation is a snack. There are
no external assigns to worry about.

On screen, Wordworth looks every
bit like a true Workbench 2.0 applica¬
tion. System menus including pull
down functions and requestors all sport
some sort of fancy font. This help
makes things more readable, however
on occasion the menus seemed to be¬
come a little confused with some let¬
ters overlapping others.

Wordworth can be adjusted to cor¬
rectly display WYSIWYG represen¬
tations of both 60 and 80 DPI output.
It will not properly handle laserjet as
yet, although there is some support in
this area. Full postscript support is
included and works very well.

Editing speed is great as are the
range of editing keys and functions.
Wordworth actually supports the
Home, End, PgUp and PgDn keys too.
There are icons to handle such things
as line spacing, justification, font and
colour selection, margins and tabs.

There is a very strong set of keyboard
short-cuts. Many of the pull-down
menus cause pop-up radio button
menus to appear. A very pleasing in¬
terface which you can zoom around
after just a few minutes exploration.

Extensive control over page for¬
matting is offered including all mar¬
gins, headers and footers. There is no
footnote facility. Paragraphs can be
formatted individually including jus¬
tification, indentation, TABs, line
spacing and space before and after a
paragraph. Certainly a lot more fancy
than most wordprocessors and even
up there with some of the better desk¬
top publishing programs. There is no
support for multiple columns at the
moment - this too is a planned addition
in a coming release.

Wordworth supports standard
Amiga typefaces as well as colour
fonts for which you’ll need the
ColourFonts program included with
Deluxe Paint. The main menu to se¬
lect a font is a pop up requestor which
shows the font name, drawer, point
size and tracking (character spacing).
You can enter any point size, however
only Workbench 2.0 will guarantee a
smooth rendition of the typeface -
earlier versions are limited to those
sizes available or chunky versions of
scaled sizes. There is support for super
and subscript.

When it comes to including IFF
images, Wordworth scores very well.
The place picture option will import

any standard Amiga IFF graphic in
any resolution or size from 2 to 64
colours, HAM or Extra-Half-Brite.
HAM images are converted to 64 col¬
our Extra-Half-Brite. The current pal¬
ette can be altered to reflect the graph¬
ics palette (colours 4-16 of the current
palette are adjusted to reflect the most
used colours in the graphic), or the
palette of the imported graphic can be
adjusted to best match the current
settings.

Text can be made to flow around
the graphic to the left or right. If
colour 0 is selected to be transparent
you can also have contoured text flow
around the image. You can resize the
image using simple drag handles.
Holding the shift key as you drag will
maintain the correct aspect ratio. A
double click on the image brings up a
useful picture options menu much like
any good desktop publishing program.

Apart from the standard NLQ O:
draft mode, graphic mode provides
support for the Amiga fonts and graph¬
ics. Wordworth comes with special
fonts to correctly represent the NLQ |
fonts on screen in true WYSIWYG
form. There is also a special output
mode known as Ultraprint. This effec¬
tively doubles or quadruples the screen
resolution which is dumped to the
printer in a graphic print mode. The
catch is any font used must be avail¬
able in either double or quadruple size
to use this option. For example an 8
point Times font printed in Ultraprint
High (double) would require Times
16 point to be available before the
document could print. In Ultraprint
Super (Quadruple) you would need
Times 32 point. The result of this
output mode is impressive, but the
printing is considerably slower. Not a
bad alternative to a similar feature
provided by Kindwords 2.0.

NLQ and Amiga graphics may be
mixed using a special two pass func¬
tion. The output menu helps with all
this by giving full control over the
usual preference settings which affect
printer output including the printer
driver. Changes made in the program
are reflected in preferences normal
system configuration file.

Wordworth has a number of fea-
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The world’s best loved computer

\^Vhen Amiga Annual was released early last year, it was reported that 2 million
Amigas had been sold worldwide since its inception a few years before.

It took just on 12 months for an additional one million.

Amiga has simply taken off!

This is good news, not just for Commodore. As a result of an ever expanding user
base, more developers in both software and hardware see that Amiga is here to
stay and therefore commit to provide better software and hardware to the benefit
of Amiga and all users.

Amiga graphics and multitasking capabilities are just part of the reason for this
growth. The real reason is that it is the easiest and most adaptable Computer
around. Amiga has found its way into just about all areas of human applications,
research, education, science, video, music, animation, business, desktop
publishing, art etc etc. The list goes on.

Amiga has whetted our appetite for creative expression and it shows in
numbers that are enviable to the competition.

What other computer could better this?

Perhaps the next Amiga now on the drawing boards of todays Amigas?!

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Wordprocessing

tures which overcome several long
standing problems with these types of
wordprocessors. If this is an upgrade
you’re probably first concerned with
converting your old format files across
to Wordworth. This is handled el¬
egantly by the document format menu
which offers compatibility with ASCII,
ProWrite, WordPerfect , IFF Text
(such as Kindwords ) and Protext .

Occasional system crashes can be
thwarted with Wordworth’s auto-save
option. You can set the amount of time
between saves. The save function cre¬
ates a backup before replacing the
existing file enabling you to revert
back to an earlier version of your file.

The William Collins spelling

checker contains 116,000 words in¬
cluding 26,000 words from the
Merriam-Webster legal and medical
supplements. However, it’s very easy
to add words to the dictionary. When
a word is queried you have the option
to edit it, replace it from the near¬
match listing of words, ignore it or add
the word to the user dictionary. This
dictionary is automatically updated
and reloaded each time you run
Wordworth. The spell-checker can
work as you type - although this re¬
quires a hard disk or copying the dic¬
tionary to RAM. Spelling suggestions
are based on both phonetic spellings
and common mis-spellings. I found
the dictionary was a very useful func¬

tion, especially once it contained my
commonly used computer terms.

There is also a good thesaurus and
document analysis. You can also cre¬
ate a glossary of commonly used terms
or phrases which are then quickly
accessible from a pop up menu.
Wordworth handles hyphenation quite
well. It even has a smart speech option
to read portions of text or read as you
type.

Overall, Wordworth is a functional
well thought out package that will no
doubt become the standard by which
others are judged. The documentation
is of a very high standard. For more
information contact Pactronics on (02)
748 4700.

FinalCopy - $299

Using the new Commodore produced
installation program, getting FinalCopy
up and running is a breeze. The program
preference settings allows you alter such
things as units, screen resolution, page
guides and displaying IFF images as grey
scales or colour. Startup preferences can
be set for custom, custom interlace (flicker
fixer required), Workbench or ask at
startup. The speller and hyphenation pref¬
erences allow more memory to be as¬
signed to these functions. If you have
enough RAM this will increase the speed
of operation of these functions.

The page size is defined and then the
print area. The Edit area with its top,
bottom, left and right margins are then
specified. Up to six columns and the gap
between them may also be set. All prefer¬
ence settings may be used or saved as
defaults.

Editing speed is good considering that
outline fonts are being used. Once a page
has been scrolled through, further scroll¬
ing of that page is considerably faster.
There are keyboard shortcuts for most
menu selections and for quickly moving
around the document. A full Arexx port is
included. Macros for use in the program
may be written in Arexx and called from
the macro menu. It is quick to work on a
document since it may be viewed and

edited at sizes from 25% to 400%.

Control over page format includes head¬
ers, footers, margins, title page and
number of columns. Footnotes are not
supported. Paragraphs may be formatted
using icons in the ruler or from the layout
paragraph menu. Settings include indents,
line spacing, justification, tabs, hyphena¬
tion enable, and hyphenation hot zone.

Individual paragraphs may have differ¬
ent settings. Settings can be quickly cop¬
ied to a new paragraph by copying the
ruler from a suitable paragraph. Line spac¬
ing includes single, 1 1/2, double and
variable. The hyphenation hot zone con¬
trols from where along a line the program
will attempt to hyphenate a word.

Text and fonts are where FinalCopy
really shines. Included are 29 postscript
outline fonts found on most laser printers
and four default outline fonts. These fonts
are the Nimbus Q font technology from
“The Company”. Standard sizes range

from 8 to 72 point but other sizes from 4 to
200 point in one point steps may be used.
Leading or line spacing may be defined if
the variable option was selected for the
paragraph. Text styles available are nor¬
mal, underline, strike through and double
underline. Text position may be normal,
superscript or subscript. Text width may
be varied from 50 to 150% from the menu
or another value may be keyed in.

An interesting feature is the text case
menu option where three options are avail¬
able. Normally the text is as typed. With
Small Caps on, all the letters are capitals
and the height is the same as lower case
letters.

The insertion of IFF ILBM graphics is
another of FinaiCopy's strong areas. IFF
graphics in HAM, Extra Halfbrite and ILBM
in up to 8 bit planes are supported. Text
may be flowed around the left or right
hand side of a graphic if its background is
set to transparent and it is not a HAM

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Wordprocessing

Kindwords - $99

Kindwords is a fine middle of the
road package. It has one feature dot
matrix owners will love. Print quality
produced using Kindwords is good
thanks to its own unique printer driv¬
ers. These far exceed the quality pro¬
duced by the standard Workbench driv¬
ers. However, there is a small trade off
in another related area. In this case,
the number of available fonts is re¬
duced and standard Amiga fonts can¬
not be used.

There’s a full find and replace fa¬
cility, 100,000word Merriam/Webster
spell checker, 470,000 synonym the¬
saurus and hyphenation control. You
can include graphics in up to 16 col¬
ours. Once imported, an image can be
cropped, sized and edited. Both low
and medium resolution images may
be used. High resolution images will

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import, however they are automati¬
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On screen editing is comprehen¬
sive. There are short cut keys for most
menu options. A pop up menu with a
condensed listing of every key func¬
tion is available. Other features in¬
clude page numbering, mail merge,
superscripts and subscripts, and fonts
for maths, Greek and symbols. Both
disks in the package are unprotected,
and the program installs on hard drives
without any problem.

Kindwords

Overall Kindwords 2.0 is excellent
value, with plenty of punch for the
average user. My only gripes are the
lack of a word count function and the
slightly clumsy selection of different
devices when using the file requestor.
On the down side, Kindwords has
earned a reputation for being slightly
buggy - in other words, it’s not super
reliable and I would not recommend it
for serious work, especially long docu¬
ments. For more information call
Dataflow on (02) 310 2020.

image. Flow distance, the offset of the
text from the graphic, may be set from 1/
8" upwards.

The graphic frame may have no border
or a border from a hair line up to 12 points
wide. Graphics may be readily dragged
around the document and forced to snap
to the nearest 1/8“ or move only vertical or
horizontal. They may be quick sized up or
down and snap to size. Constrained sizing
where the original proportions are main¬
tained or free sizing using the eight han¬
dles on the frame is available.

Cropping of graphics is another easily
used option. The text automatically reflows
around a graphic if it is moved or inserted
after the text has been input. Graphics
may be stored in the document or to
reduce file size only the path to where the
graphic is stored saved in the document.

With the incorporation of Outline Fonts
and Postscript output the printed result is
first quality. The print requester has but¬
tons for Print Final and Print Draft, plus
options for copies, page range and prefer¬
ences. Preference settings include
graphic, postscript, draft and settings.
Settings defines Paper Feed type, Print
Order (front to back or back to front),
Collate (all, odd or even pages), Print

Final to Graphics Printer, Postscript Printer
or Postscript File.

Draft preferences defines the page
length, margins, width, pitch, quality (draft
or letter) and spacing used by the Draft
Print button. Postscript preferences de¬
fines the port the printer is attached to, the
shade grey scale or colour and the orien¬
tation of the output tall or wide. Graphic
preferences include density settings, grey
scale threshold, colour correction, dither¬
ing and shades black and white, grey
scale or colour.

Selecting the Print Final button on a
text only document gave excellent quality
on the printed page. Quality of the printing
was similar to that using the Outline fonts
in Pro Page2.0 on the same printer. The
graphic printer setup was an Epson LQ-
500 at a density setting of 3 (180x180
DPI). A very pleasing feature of the print¬
ing was the speed, which is about 50% of
the speed of the LQ-500 in letter quality
mode. Compared to FinalCopy, Pro Page,
Kindwords and graphic printing from other
word processors is positively pedestrian.

FinalCopy contains the Proximity Tech¬
nology Inc spelling checker, thesaurus
and hyphenation system. The version I
reviewed had the Merriam-Webster US

English version although a Collins UK
English is available. Both include the
Merriam-Webster legal supplement.

The hyphenation system is excellent
with good control. It must be turned on for
the whole document to be used but indi¬
vidual paragraphs may have it turned on
or off. Document statistics are available to
keep track of words, pages and other
information.

FinalCopy has good functionality and
features such as variable text width which
were once only found in Desktop Publish¬
ing programs. It sets a new standard for
output quality and speed with Outline Fonts
and Postscript support. Multiple column
support combined with easy graphics ma¬
nipulation and automatic text flow around
if the graphic is moved or another inserted
is especially handy. The Outline Fonts
overcome the old WYSIWYG problems of
having to fiddle with font sizes and line
spacing to correctly fill a page. A clear
easy to understand manual and good spell
checker and thesaurus are further plus
points. FinalCopy will give the top end
Amiga word processing programs a hurry
up to stay ahead of it. FinalCopy is avail¬
able through Computer Spot stores in
Sydney.

AMIGA ANNUAL 21

DCTV

A miga in the United States means
video. As a result, most of the
truly innovative video products
for the machine have originated in the
States. Over there they use the NTSC
standard for broadcasting television. In
Australia we use PAL, a superior sys¬

tem which is also used by the UK, parts
of Europe and South America.The down
side of this is we have to wait for
American companies to convert hard¬
ware over to the PAL standard before it
is of any use to us.

After a long wait, DCTV is now

shipping in PAL form. At around $1200
at the initial release, it was certainly a
lot more expensive than the NTSC ver¬
sion. However, street prices are now
hitting as low as $999.

DCTV is one of the most exciting
add-ons for the Amiga for some time.
Until now there has been no way of
playing 24-bit animations. Normally,
you would have to record each frame at
a time to an expensive professional
VCR. Combined with the right control
equipment, producing such animation
would require the purchase of around
$10,000 of extra equipment on top of
your Amiga. With DCTV, any VCR
can be used to record the
output. DCTV is also a
powerful 16.7 million
colour paint box and
digitiser.

Installation

I have been in the habit
of connecting and discon¬
necting things from my
Amiga for some time.
When I plugged in DCTV,
it didn’t work. The prob¬
lem was I had damaged
my video port which pro¬
vides the necessary power
to the DCTV unit.

There are three power
lines present on this port,
and shorting them out can
blow a tiny solid state fuse
which is soldered to the
Amiga’s PCB. A quick
trip up to Sibnet, a Syd¬
ney Commcare Centre,
and all was fixed.

Once DCTV powered up, I con¬
nected a standard 1084S to the compos¬
ite output and a Canon still video cam¬
era to the composite input. The next
step is adjust a small knob on the back
of DCTV until one of the demonstration
images included with the software dis¬
plays clearly on your composite moni¬
tor. Every monitor is different and must
be individually adjusted. Once you’ve
got it right, DCTV functions reliably
and we experienced no other problems
getting it working.

The manual is well designed, and

If you fancy yourself toying with television quality graphics, DCTV is the most
affordable solution. With the ability to animate 16.7 million colour graphics in real
time, it’s also about one tenth the cost of alternative systems.

Andrew Farrell road-tested the PAL unit now shipping in Australia.

Television Quality Graphics

AMIGA ANNUAL 22

DCTV

quite easy to follow, however some of
the paint software’s more powerful fea¬
tures are skipped over too quickly, leav¬
ing some things to be discovered by
experimenting with what brief mention
is made.

Before too long I was up and run¬
ning, digitising images from the Canon
and distorting them all sorts of ways
using the paint software. The images
look just like a still frame from your
VCR - slightly blurry, television qual-

chunk of information at the top left of
any DCTV image which is vital to the
image being displayed correctly. Be¬
cause DCTV images are stored as IFF
files, any program can load them and
display them providing the image is
correctly positioned on the screen so
that the chunk is in the right spot.

The actual bitmap is also different to
a normal image. On your RGB monitor
the screen looks like a big mess, with

ity, with lots of colours - which
all look slightly flat. Don’t
expect to see the same crisp,
vibrant output that an RGB 24-
bit display device provides.
DCTV is completely differ¬
ently to these devices. It is this
difference that gives it the ani¬
mation advantage.

What is DCTV
Anyway?

You might call DCTV a trick
of sorts. It’s not real 24-bit,
however, it’s as 24-bit as you’ll
probably ever need. The
number of output colours is
achieved using normal Amiga
display modes. However, the
way the information is inter¬
preted by the DCTV unit is
where things start taking shape.

For a start, there’s a small

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DCTV

only a vague looking image visible.
However, through the DCTV’s com¬
posite output, the full potential of the
composite colour display is visible.

Composite video combines both col¬
our and picture information in the same
signal, so the result is never as crisp as
RGB. However, since television is es¬
sentially a composite signal, the results
look almost the same once recorded to
video and played back through a televi¬
sion.

For the technically minded, DCTV
uses special compression techniques to
compact the video data and then de¬
compress it on the fly during display.
The flexibility of this system is that you
can play full television quality anima¬
tion back as fast as a normal Amiga
animation in the same resolution. On an
accelerated Amiga the results are very
impressive.

Paint Software

Although not right up there with
Deluxe Paint, the DCTV paint software
is of a very high standard. Air brushing
in 24-bit is a whole new experience - for
a change the results look like real air
brush effects. The software is arranged
like DigiPaint, with a panel of gadgets
on a separate screen which is normally
located at the base of painting. A row of
buttons across the top of the panel acti¬
vate different painting tools including
Paint, Area Fill, Text, Scissor, Paste,
Magnify, various lines, Squares, Cir¬
cles, Draw Fill, Stencil Activate, Make
Stencil, Swap Page, Quick Save and
Load and a screen to back gadget.

Working with colours is very simple.
You can easily adjust an existing colour
well, or mix colours in the mixing area
using any of the normal paint tools.
Although brushes can only be saved in
a proprietary format, they can be ma¬
nipulated in many ways. A brush can be

rotated any number of degrees, flipped,
sheared, sized and bent. The shadow
gadget creates a shadow with variable
distance and angle from the clip, and an
adjustable degree of opacity.

Paint modes include normal solid
painting, effected only by the flow set¬
ting; tint, which changes the
chrominance portion of underlying
graphics; shade, which changes the lu¬
minance part of the colour; airbrush and
water-colour, which gives works with a
finite amount of paint with each stroke
or mix existing colours.

A whole range of fills are available
including gradient, pattern and wrap.
Gradients can be border, horizontal,
vertical, linear, radial, remap, spiral or
4-point. Patterns may be tiled, brick,
wallpaper or mirror tiled. A wrap may
be horizontal, vertical or from a point.

The stencil facility allows you to
build up a stencil using the normal paint
tools and to select a range of colours to
include, with a degree of nearness. Once
you’ve created a stencil it can be saved,
inverted and edited with ease. You can
also blend, smooth, rub thru to the
background image and filter (for legal
composite colour).

Overall, the paint software is amongst
the more powerful contenders. The vari¬
able magnify option is excellent and
overall speed is very good. The soft¬
ware is let down only by the manual
which lacks clear examples and brushes
over powerful features way too quickly.

Digitise

Capturing images from a still video
source proved to be one of DCTV’s
strengths. Apart from scanning in col¬
our photographs using a flat-bed scan¬
ner, DCTV sourced images are amongst
the best quality I have seen on the
Amiga. Like most, the software to cap¬
ture images is very simple. The scan

takes from six to 10 seconds - the speed
is adjustable to fit in best with the device
you’re using for input.

Once you have the picture in memory,
there are some simple image processing
capabilities, although this is an area
where DCTV is lacking slightly. An¬
other problem we had was that although
you can save the image as a 24-bit IFF,
there is no way to save a grey scale
picture as an 8-bit image. Considering
DCTV with a Canon still video camera
produces ideal black and white images
when desktop published it would be
nice not to have to continually convert
back and forwards between both for¬
mats.

Conclusions

Many programs support DCTV in¬
cluding VistaPro, AdPro 2.0 , Imagine
and more are on the way. Considering
DCTV images can be so easily used in
other programs and that you can play
24-bit animations easily, DCTV is a
must have for animation and presenta¬
tion graphics use. As a paint box it is a
well rounded package which could do
with a few bells and whistles. As it
stands, DCTV is good value for money.
The quality is not RGB, but then neither
is the average television.

We are still running more tests on the
unit, and we’re hoping it will stand up to
professional use for video production.
A composite to RGB adaptor is in the
pipeline, this will allow DCTV images
to be genlocked over video. When that
arrives, DCTV will certainly be a real
bonus for video titling. It would be great
to see a digital video effects unit which
takes advantage of the DCTV display
format. Otherwise, a very worthwhile
device for all sorts of uses.

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Amiga
Options

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by Stan Nirenburg

I f you’re think¬
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the leap into the
world of MIDI mu¬
sic, here’s a first
hand review of
Commodore’s own
package solution.

I had been think¬
ing about playing a
musical instrument
for some time. Just
before Christmas I
purchased a new
Yamaha keyboard

which, amongst _

other things, fea¬
tures MIDI capability. I had previously
played the piano, but my new electronic
keyboard opened up new possibilities
with some 100 built in instrument
sounds.

But how to tap this wonderful facil¬
ity?

Luckily, the Amiga coupled with
suitable hardware and software, can be
used to bring musical keyboards alive.
The equipment I am talking about is a
package from Commodore called Alter
Audio.

The Alter Audio Package

Alter Audio provides all the neces¬
sary bits to enable a musical keyboard
to be connected to and controlled by the
Amiga. The package comprises a MIDI
interface, connecting cables and soft¬
ware, and sells for a recommended re¬
tail price of $249. Shopping around for
a better price is, as always, highly rec¬
ommended.

The package is aimed very much at
the novice home musician. Inside a
rather large briefcase style box (with
built in plastic carry handle) is a card¬
board box which contains the MIDI

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interface, two MIDI cables and a very
comprehensive manual. There is also a
neat folder in the briefcase which opens
up to reveal four disks (one disk holds
the MIDI software and there are a fur¬
ther three disks full of sampled instru¬
ment sounds), a manual and an audio
cassette.

The audio cassette takes the first
time user through the steps required to
produce your very own music.

MIDI Interface Hardware

The MIDI interface itself is a very
small box (15mm high, 40mm wide and
100mm deep) that plugs into the Ami¬
ga’s serial port (the same one that is
normally used for the modem). There
are two screws at the back of the inter¬
face to secure the unit to the Amiga.

For the technically minded, the MIDI
interface has one IN port, two OUT
ports and a switchable OUT/THRU port.
In addition, a serial pass through is also
provided to enable a modem to be con¬
nected to the Amiga without having to
disconnect the MIDI interface - very
convenient. There are two switches on
top of the unit; one is used to choose

between the serial passthrough and MIDI
function, whilst the other switch is used
to select the THRU MIDI connector if
required. The THRU MIDI facility is
useful if you want one instrument to
control another.

After attaching the MIDI Interface to
the Amiga, the next step is to connect
the musical keyboard using the sup¬
plied cables. The accompanying manual
describes a number of possible compu¬
ter/instrument configurations and ex¬
plains how to go about connecting eve¬
rything together. Finally, power on both
the musical keyboard and computer and
you can experiment with the supplied
software.

Software

The software supplied with Alter
Audio is Dr T’s Tiger Cub. Tiger Cub
is a slightly ageing twelve track
sequencing program aimed at the less
experienced user. This means that it is
not as powerful (or flash) as some of the
more modern offerings such as Bars
and Pipes Professional or Dr T’s KCS
3.5 , however, it is a fraction of the price,
it is easier to use. Despite its age it still
boasts some amazing facilities.

What can sequencing software do
for you? In a nutshell, a sequencer
allows you to record and play back
musical performances using an elec¬
tronic keyboard - a bit like a computer
multitrack tape recorder. Unlike a tape
recorder, the sequencing software al¬
lows you to edit each note individually
and also provides fine control over every
aspect of the music, including the vol¬
ume of each note played and the type of
sound or voice that is used to produce
that note.

In addition, Tiger Cub is versatile
enough to allow you to use the Amiga’s
internal sound chip to produce music

AMIGA ANNUAL 26

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without the use of a musical keyboard. And to help in this
regard, the Alter Audio package boasts two full disks of
musical instrument sound samples.

The first thing that strikes you when Tiger Cub starts is the
awful screen colours. Fortunately, these can be changed quite
easily to suit individual preferences and stored for later use. In
fact, a number of options affecting the operation of the
program and its control of the MIDI interface can be set and
stored in a special default startup file. So the next time Tiger
Cub is used, it will default to your preferred settings.

In addition, Tiger Cub allows you to set up a list of drum
machine effects, instrument sounds used by your musical
keyboard and an index of instrument samples for use by the
Amiga’s internal sound chip. This is useful in that it allows you
to change instrument types by looking up these lists rather than
having to remember code numbers.

When Tiger Cub is loaded, you are presented with the Tape
Recorder Screen. The top half of the screen shows the twelve
tracks that can be used to record and play back music. The
track display shows information about the musical keyboard
that is currently being used, the instrument sound and MIDI
channel assigned to each track, and the status of each track
(whether it is playing or silent).

The lower half of the screen is called the Control Panel and
looks very much like the control buttons that might be found
on any domestic tape recorder. There is a status display to
show the length of the recording in minutes and seconds, and
in beats.A slider switch allows you to set the tempo of your
music. This last feature is particularly useful, as it allows you
to record your music at a very slow tempo (if, like me, you are
not very good at playing the keyboard) and to play it back later
at the right tempo. Coupled with the audible metronome and
count-in feature, recording music is very easy.

Another useful aid is the “Quantizing” facility. This auto-
corrects all notes played on the keyboard to correspond to the
tempo set at the beginning of the recording session. This
allows a sloppy keyboard player like myself to create music

that is rhythmically correct.

After recording one or more tracks, the music can be edited
in the Graphic Editing Display. This screen has a status bar
along the top and a representation of a piano keyboard on the

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Music

left hand side. The notes themselves are
represented on the screen by horizontal
bars with vertical tails at the front. The
length of the horizontal bar represents
the length of the note, its position corre¬
sponds to a note on the displayed piano
keyboard and the tail indicates how
loud the note will be played. This same
screen can be used to draw musical
notes manually using the mouse (one
way of using the sequencer for internal
Amiga sounds if you don’t have an
electronic keyboard) or music may be
recorded by playing the notes on the on¬
screen keyboard display with the mouse.

Other tools provided allow you to
change the position, duration or loud¬
ness of each note and the menu bar has
editing facilities to cut, copy and paste
notes as required. A zoom button is
provided to allow you to magnify a
portion of the chosen track for fine
tuning your masterpiece.

Below the note editing window, you
can open another window to allow ed¬
iting of controllers. These controllers
can be used to adjust volume, velocity
(how hard a key is hit), pitch bend and
whatever other exotic functions your
keyboard is capable of. For example, to
create a crescendo (music becoming
gradually louder) you simply open a
velocity controller window and draw a
ramp with the mouse to indicate that the
music is to be played gradually louder.

QuickScore

Bundled with Tiger Cub is an inter¬
esting utility called QuickScore.

QuickScore is used to turn the graphical
representation of music used in Tiger
Cub into traditional music notation.
Individual tracks or the whole score can
be viewed from within QuickScore and
may also be printed for use by members
of a band, for example.

QuickScore cannot be used alone but
must be used from within Tiger Cub ,
operating under its Multi Program En¬
vironment (MPE). This means that
after Tiger Cub is started, you must
move it into the background, double
click on the QuickScore icon and return
to Tiger Cub.

On the menu bar, there is a drop
down MPE menu which allows you to
go to either Workbench or QuickScore.
It is then a simple matter of switching
between the two programs.

The Multi Program Environment is a
versatile feature. It allows other Dr T’s
utilities, such as track mixers and edi¬
tor/librarians, to be attached to Tiger
Cub to form a complete music
workstation and to share common in¬
formation without having to start and
stop various programs and to save and
load numerous files. This feature al¬
lows you to expand your MIDI setup if
you want additional facilities in the
future.

Using Alter Audio

I found Alter Audio extremely easy
to set up and use, largely due to the
excellent tutorial on tape that is pro¬
vided with the package. In fact, I was
able to create and play my very first

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Glossary

MIDI - Stands for Musical Instrument Digital
Interface. It is a standard that was developed by
the music industry some years ago to allow
electronic instruments, drum machines and
sequencers to be connected together. MIDI
allows musical information to be shared by a
number of instruments and for these instruments
to be controlled by sequencers and similar equip¬
ment.

MIDI Channel - The MIDI standard defines 16
channels on which musical data may be trans¬
ferred between instruments. This allows a number
of different sounds to be played simultaneously
in a way similar to that of a multitrack tape
recorder. The individual MIDI channels could be
used to represent different sounds that might be
found in a band (guitar, bass and drums for
example).

MIDI Interface - The hardware that is plugged
into the serial port of a computer to allow the
computer to talk to electronic musical instru¬
ments.

Synthesizer - An electronic musical keyboard
that can simulate different sounds. Although
professional synths can cost many thousands of
dollars, consumer keyboards can be purchased
for as little as $100. However, to use the key¬
board with a computer sequencer requires that
the keyboard have MIDI built in. The synthesizer
should be multitimbral (see below).
Multitimbral - This means that the musical
instrument is capable of simultaneously playing
more than one sound. This is necessary to
produce the effect of a number of instruments
playing simultaneously from the one keyboard.
Polyphonic - The musical instrument is capable
of playing more than one note at a time.
Sequencer - A software package that allows you
to record and play back music through an elec¬
tronic musical keyboard. It controls all aspects of
the attached instrument and provides extensive
editing facilities.

Event - A piece of transmitted MIDI information
such as the playing or releasing of notes.
Control Change - Information about how the
music is to be played, eg, pitch bending or
velocity.

Program Change - Command to the musical
instrument to change its sound source, eg, from
piano to guitar.

Velocity - Defines how hard the instrument key
is to be played.

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Music

Product: Alter Audio

Category: Music/MIDI

Publisher: The Disk Company
Distributor: Commodore

RRP: $249

Contents: 4 Disks, Audio Cassette, MIDI Interface,

2 MIDI Cables, Hardware Manual,

120 Page Software Manual
Requirements: 1 Mbyte Ram Minimum
Hard Disk Installable
Not Copy Protected,

Electronic Keyboard

piece of music with little reference to the manuals.

To connect the hardware, I followed the instruction in the>
manual. Essentially, all that is required is to plug the MIDI
interface into the Amiga’s serial port, connect the MIDI cables
between the interface and the electronic keyboard, set the
switches on the interface and turn the power on.

The tutorial tape is a great idea - having someone teach you
is probably the best way to leam. The tutorial is a step by step
guide to the complete process of recording a piece of music.
The instructions on the tape are generally very clear, no jargon
is used and the voice on the tape will tell you when to stop the
tape and read the manual for further information and when to
record music. Along the way, the tutorial covered many of the
features of the Tiger Cub program.

I should mention that on two or three occasions I misunder¬
stood the instructions. However, after replaying that segment
of tape or reading part of the manual, everything became clear.

I did read the manual eventually (doesn’t every one read the
manual after trying the program first?). It has been designed
with the MIDI novice in mind. After describing what MIDI
is and what sequencers are, the manual launches into a tutorial
(not as good as the one on the tape). Two further chapters cover
use of the Tape Recorder Screen and Graphic Editing Screen.
A whole chapter is devoted to music editing (I guess this is one
of the main benefits of using a sequencing program over a
multitrack tape recorder). A few more chapters cover the
QuickScore module and other miscellaneous features of Tiger
Cub.

Summary

Alter Audio is a fun, educational package well suited to the
Amiga user who is interested in music. The package comes
with absolutely everything that is needed to create music
(except for the computer and electronic instrument); I created
my first piece of music within two hours of the package

arriving. And the best part is that at $249, it is good value.

The inclusion of a tutorial tape in Alter Audio was a great
innovation. It allows even the first time user (like myself) to
start creating music in no time at all and certainly did away
with any hassles that one often encounters with new and
unfamiliar products.The software is sophisticated enough to
allow you to use it for a number of years as your own skills
develop.

I highly recommend Alter Audio to anyone who wants to
learn about music and MIDI, for anyone who wants to
compose and create music, for the band on a budget or simply
for having musical fun at home.

Comments

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manuals are comprehensive, comes with a good audio tape
tutorial and the sequencing software is easy to use but power¬
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Virus

What to do about Computer Viruses

Fact or fiction?

How do you catch one, where do they live and how do you get rid of them?
Andrew Leniart explains what to do about the threat of viral infection.

T he mere thought of a virus pumps
fear into many new Amiga users.
Others are convinced they have
nothing to worry about, because a com¬
puter can’t catch a cold.

True enough, but don’t fall into the
trap of thinking that your machine can¬
not catch a computer virus.

On the other side of the coin, don’t
become over paranoid about it either.
Like most things in life, once you have
an understanding of what these things
are all about, you learn to live with it.

A computer virus is nothing more
than a piece of cleverly written soft¬
ware, that copies itself to other disks
without any special effort needed on
your part to help the process along.
That’s all they are, period.

This ability of a virus program to
replicate can be annoying, however the
most infuriating part is when a virus
program actually damages important
information or one of your programs.

The most common type of virus
around is the boot-block virus. It is
called such because they are written to
the boot sector of your bootable disks.
Any disk that will start the Amiga when

inserted at the Workbench hand prompt
is a bootable disk.

The other type of virus which is fast
becoming more commonplace is called
a file or link virus (otherwise known as
trojans). These are designed to copy
themselves onto an existing executable
file on your disks.

File type viruses spread in various
ways, but all require that you run the
program to which they are attached
before they can spread. While not as
common as the boot block type, they are
often harder to track down and destroy.

A disk which is infected with a boot-
block virus needs to be booted before it
can do any damage to your software.
Once the disk is booted, the virus pro¬
gram copies itself from the infected
disk's boot-block into the Amiga’s
memory where it sits, usually doing
nothing at this stage except waiting for
the next boot disk to be warm booted.

Once you warm boot another disk,
the culprit goes into action and provid¬
ing that the next disk you have just
booted is write enabled, then it copies
itself to the boot-block of that disk. This
process will continue to happen, reboot

after reboot until the virus is either
removed by special software written for
this purpose or the machine is powered
off. Cold booting the Amiga will effec¬
tively remove the virus from memory
thus ending the infecting process until
an infected disk is again booted from. It
would be easy to write a few pages on
this topic alone, however I’ll leave that
to the experts.

The above is a broad and general
explanation of what a computer virus is
and how it spreads.

Destructive Potential

Boot-block viruses can destroy cus¬
tom boot-blocks which many commer¬
cial game disks boot with. Software
companies create special boot-blocks
for various reasons, sometimes to en¬
hance the start of a game, sometimes to
just make it harder to copy the disk and
(theoretically) prevent pirate copies of
the software being made. Once a virus
over-writes this custom boot-block, the
game refuses to load and the disk be¬
comes useless. If you’re not using a
backup of the disk and you paid big
dollars for the game, then
it’s easy to see just how
painful this can be.

Trojans on the other hand
can be even nastier than
that and are unfortunately
easier to write. It’s easier to
make link type viruses nas¬
tier because virus program¬
mers are not limited to the
size of the boot sector of a
disk in which to write their
nasty code. Some trojans
will corrupt whole disks full

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of information and can make a whole
hard drive full of software useless. Some
lunatic even wrote a time bomb virus
where it will sit on disk doing nothing
until a certain date after which it will fly
into action corrupting files all over the
place.

I’m sure you’ll now agree that it pays
to look into this subject a little further
and learn how to protect your invest¬
ments. Fortunately, software writers
around the globe are continually look¬
ing into this problem for us and are
producing Anti-Virus software which
makes protecting yourself relatively
easy.

Anti-Virus

There are various pieces of software
available for the Amiga written specifi¬
cally to deal with these problems.

Three come to mind straight off.
VirusX is an American effort that is
public domain has been around as long
as I can remember. However I person¬
ally prefer to use two Australian efforts.
They go by the name of ZeroVirus ,
written by Jonathon Potter, and NoVirus
by Nic Wilson.

Both are freely available through the
public domain libraries and both have
the ability to detect and destroy virus
programs from your disks and compu¬
ter memory if infected. Another excel¬
lent program originating from Europe is
called BootX.

You can get more information on
these programs by writing to Prime
Artifax or Megadisc - both of whom
advertise in The Australian Commo¬
dore and Amiga Review. Alternatively,
check with your local Amiga User group.

More detailed explanations of this
topic can be obtained from the
documentations that accompany the
programs.

Some Virus Facts

Here are some facts to defeat a few of
the more common myths that float
around about viruses and what they can
and can’t do.

1. It is impossible for a computer
virus to harm your hardware. The only
one that I know of that even comes close

to doing this is a file virus by the name
of Floppy Music. This culprit plays
funny business with your disk drive
heads when it is run. Easy to detect and
if stopped quickly enough, no harm is
done.

2. It is impossible for a virus to
remain in computer memory once you
have turned the power to the machine
off for at least 10 seconds. Some people
may try and tell you that a virus can
copy itself into the RAM built into the
real time clock & memory expansion
unit (A501) available for your Amiga
and thus survive a cold boot. This is
total and utter rubbish and should be
dismissed as such.

3. I can’t believe the amount of
rubbish that one hears flying around
that a disk drive can be forced to write
to a disk even if its write-protect tab is
set to open.

It is impossible for a virus to infect
any disk if its write protect tab is set to
open just as it is impossible to write any
data to a write protected disk.

You will no doubt hear of other
claims that these mysterious pieces of
software can do. It is impossible to
cover everything because as soon as one
false theory is dismissed, some clown
makes up another one and sits back
laughing as the new inexperienced
Amiga owner goes paranoid and be¬
lieves it.

Stick to playing it safe by taking
some precautionary measures like the
ones listed below and don’t worry about
it. It’s all part of the fun of home com¬
puting. If you always keep a backup of
your important disks, then you have
little to worry about.

Simple Steps To
Protecting Yourself

• Check any new disks you get with
a virus checking program. If you don’t
have one yet, then get one. You’ll need
it.

• Whenever possible, make a backup
of disks you consider to contain valu¬
able information and use the backup
rather than the original. Always keep
your originals write protected.

• If something out of the ordinary is
happening when using a certain disk,
power off after using it before booting
up with another. Keep playing it safe
with that disk until you can confirm that
it is not infected.

• Always keep the original copies of
your disks write protected.

Okay, so much for talk about viruses
here. If you want more in depth infor¬
mation on this topic, write to the editor
and tell him so. He’ll soon tee up some¬
one to do an article devoted to the
subject in a future issue of Australian
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AMIGA ANNUAL 31

Communications

By connecting your Amiga to a
telephone line, a whole world of
possibilities opens up. With help
from a $400 modem you can
communicate with other users
around the world, exchange
software, purchase products or
research information.
Andrew Farrell explains.

F or the cost of a local telephone
call, it’s possible to access a wide
range of privately operated com¬
puters. Here you can meet like minded
Amiga people and exchange all types of
files as well as gaining access to the
international Amiga conferences con¬
taining a veritable wealth of advice.
There are also many commercially op¬
erated information services and bank¬
ing facilities which offer additional op¬
portunities to travel the world from the
comfort of your keyboard. However,
these services can cost up to $36 an hour
and should be used carefully.

The device you will need to buy to
make this possible is a modem. Using a
flat ribbon cable, the modem connects
to your Amiga’s RS-232 port at the back
of your machine. Only a few wires are
needed for bare minimum operation.
One carries data from the Amiga to the
modem, the next brings data from the
modem to the computer and the third is

a common ground. You can create your
own cable if one is not shipped with the
modem. Connect pins 2-2, 3-3 and 20-
20 .

Once the information from your com¬
puter reaches the modem, it is changed
from digital information into sound
which can be transmitted over the tel¬
ephone line to a modem at the other end,
where it is turned back into computer
data. This process is called modulating
and demodulating respectively - thus
the name MODEM.

The modem modem is an semi-in¬

telligent device with its own command
set to alter the way it talks to the modem
at the other end of the telephone wire.
These commands can be sent directly to
the modem through a simple terminal
program. However, to make the task of
communicating with other systems
easier, most good communications soft¬
ware handles talking to the modem for
you.

The top four programs available in
Australia are JR-Comm, GP-Term,
Atalk-lll and NComm 1.92.

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GP-Term 4.53

A local product, GP-Term is sold
commercially for around $100. There is
good local support and upgrades have
been forthcoming. The
program sports a slightly
unusual interface, with
some options being sev¬
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phone book is annoying,
for it must load each en¬
try from disk. The dial
window is rather bare and
a little cumbersome com¬

pared to other programs.

In its favour GP-Term handles
downloads well, with comprehensive
support of the Z-Modem protocol. It is
also the only program which correctly

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AMIGA ANNUAL 32

Communications

Atalk-lll 1.0

A fast, organised approach to menus
and options makes A talk-III a pleasure
to use. A handy Quick menu provides
most often selected options on a single
intuition gadget based window. The
phone book and dialling is smooth, with
plenty of room for configuring each
number individually. The documention
is outstanding, with in depth coverage
of all aspect of communications. A talk-
III is especially well equiped to handle
speaking with main-frames.

On the down side there is a distinct
lack of PAL support, clumsy multi-file
selection for batch file transfers and a
lack of low level control over modem
settings. On the other hand the script
language is strong, and there is a handy
learn mode for automatically creating
logon scripts. There’s even a simple
BBS host script for remote access to
your machine.

Other strong points include the
AREXX support, variety of screen op¬
tions and overall speed. The worst point
is the price, at around $150. For more
information call Computermate on (02)
457 8388.

JR-Comm1.02A

Despite the fact that this is often
touted as public domain software, JR-
Comm is as commercial as they come.
It falls into a category known as
Shareware - software which may be
freely distributed, but to legally use it
you must send money to the author
directly. In return you receive a fully
operational version which in JR-Comm's
case removes an otherwise annoying
delay screen. This sounds good except
the author lives in America, so finding
local support may not be easy. Worse
still is the problem of trying to deal with
problems when money sent doesn’t re¬
sult in a registered version being forth¬
coming.

With all that aside, JR-Comm re¬
mains a favourite of many regular
telecomputing users. It sports a smart
interface, plenty of low-level
configurability, and a well thought out
interface for most aspects of the pro¬
gram's operation including the phone

NComm 1.92

Unlike all the other programs men¬
tioned, NComm is truly brilliant value for
money. It’s free. Well, it’s as free as you
make it.

The authors encourage you to send
them whatever you think the program is
worth. So all you’re likely to pay is the cost
of downloading from your local BBS, or
the price of a disk from a nearby user
group or PD supplier, plus your token
payment to the author.

NComm is a prize example of how all
good software should be written. It is
internally multitasking - so while you're
waiting for a download you can edit the
phone book or review the capture buffer.
NComm has the most powerful script
language I’ve ever seen on any Amiga
terminal program. It’s so
good, that Ncomm in¬
cludes a Host mode script
which is more like a mini-
BBS, complete with mes¬
sage and file areas, user
security, bulletin areas and
more.

There is good support
for XPR’s - external
procotol libraries for
protocols not supported
when you first obtain
Ncomm. I often use
QuickB, a protocol espe¬
cially for use on

CompuServe. Atalk also supports this op¬
tion, but Ncomm handles it better.

The phone book is fairly good - what is
great is the quick dial pull down menu.
Every phone number can have its own
configuration - with common configs able
to be shared between numbers. There is
good handling of Macros but sadly no
AREXX support.

The documentation is well written, and
NComm offers plenty of controls over all
aspects of operation. Ease of use, plenty
of power and typical Amiga type menus
coupled with a sensible approach to or¬
ganising all the available functions has
made NComm my choice for best com¬
munications program. And you can’t beat
the price. □

book, terminal settings and default pro-
gram settings.

All this power can be a bit much for
the beginner. Also, the documention is
a bit heavy and there’s nothing in the
way of script support - although an

update with this and other features such
as AREXX and XPR ’ s is expected soon.

Good emulation of ANSI graphics
and PC keyboard, excellent levels of
program control and strong availability
make JR-Comm a popular choice. □

JR - Comm

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Communications

BBS Etiquette

K eeping on the good side of your
friendly local SYSOP is impor¬
tant. Keeping in good with other
users also helps. Here’s a guideline to
what to do and not to do to make your
stay a welcome one next time you call
a Bulletin Board in your area.

1. Don’t habitually hang up on a
system. Every Sysop is aware that acci¬
dental disconnections happen once in a
while but we do tend to get annoyed
with people who hang up every single
time they call because they are either
too lazy to terminate properly or they
labour under the mistaken assumption
that the 10 seconds they save online is
going to significantly alter their phone
bill. “Call Waiting” is not an acceptable
excuse for long.

If you have it and intend to use the
line to call BBS systems, you should
either have it disconnected or find some
other way to circumvent it.

2. Don’t do dumb things like leave
yourself a message that says “Just test¬
ing to see if this thing works”. Where do
you think all those other messages came
from if it didn’t work?

Also, don’t leave whiney messages
that say “Please leave me a message”. If
ever there was a person to ignore, it’s
the one who begs someone to leave him
a message. If you want to get messages,
start by reading the ones that are already
online and getting involved in the con¬
versations that exist.

3. Don’t use the local equivalent of a
chat command unless you really have
some clear-cut notion of what you want
to say and why. Almost any Sysop is
more than happy to answer questions or
offer help concerning his system.

Unfortunately, because about 85%
of the people who call want to chat and
about 99% of those people have abso¬
lutely nothing to say besides “How old
are you?” or something equally irrel¬
evant - fewer Sysops even bother an¬
swering their pagers every day.

4. When you are offered a place to
leave comments when exiting a system,
don’t try to use this area to ask the Sysop
questions. It is very rude to the other
callers to expect the Sysop to carry on a
half visible conversation with some¬
one. If you have a question or statement
to make and expect the Sysop to re¬
spond to it, it should always be made in
the section where all the other messages
are kept. This allows the Sysop to help
many people with the same problem
with the least amount of effort on his
part.

5. Before you log on with your fa¬
vourite pseudonym, make sure that han¬
dles are allowed. Most Sysops don’t
want people using handles on the sys¬
tem. There is not enough room for them,
and they get silly games of one-
upmanship started, it is much nicer to
deal with a person on a personal basis.

Last but not least, everyone should

be willing to take full responsibility for
his actions or comments instead of sling¬
ing mud from behind a phoney
name.Also when signing on, why not
sign on just like you would introduce
yourself in your own society? How
many of you usually introduce your¬
selves as Joe W Smutz the 3rd or 4th?

6. Take the time to log on properly.
There is no such place as NEW, MEL,
SYD or any of a thousand other abbre¬
viations people use instead of their
proper city. You may think that every¬
one knows what Sunshine VIC is sup¬
posed to mean, but every BBS has
people calling from all around the coun¬
try and I assure you that someone from
Yappoon has no idea what you’re talk¬
ing about.

7. Don’t go out of your way to make
rude observations like “Boy, this sys¬
tem is slow”. Every BBS is a tradeoff of
features. You can generally assume that
if someone is running a particular brand
of software, that he is either happy with
it or he’ll decide to find another system
he likes better. It does nobody any good
when you make comments about some¬
thing that you perceive to be a flaw
when it is running the way the Sysop
wants it to. Constructive criticism is
somewhat more welcome.

If you have an alternative method
that seems to make good sense then run
it up the flagpole.

8. When leaving messages, stop and
ask yourself whether it is necessary to
make it private. Unless there is some
particular reason that everyone shouldn ’t
know what you’re saying, don’t make it
private. We don’t call them PUBLIC

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Communications

bulletin boards for nothing, folks. It’s
very irritating to other callers when
there are huge blank spots in the mes¬
sages that they can’t read and it stifles
interaction between callers.

9. If your favourite BBS has a time
limit, observe it. If it doesn’t, set a limit
for yourself and abide by it instead.
Don’t tie up a system until the point
where the Sysop has to ask you to log off
- remember, there are other callers try¬
ing to get on the board.

Especially don’t make a lot of trans¬
fers of large files during the busiest
hours for the board you’re using.

10. Don’t log on to a system as a new
user and run right to the other numbers
list. There is probably very little that’s
more annoying to any Sysop than to
have his board completely passed over
by you on your way to another board.

11. Have the common courtesy to
pay attention to what passes in front of

Keep firmly in mind that you
are a guest on any BBS you
happen to call.

Follow any rules for system
use the Sysop has laid out
without grumping about it.

your face. When a BBS displays your
name and asks “Is this you?”, don’t say
yes when you can see perfectly well that
it is misspelled.

Also, don’t start asking questions
about simple operation of a system until
you have thoroughly read all of the
instructions that are available to you. I
assure you that it isn’t any fun to answer
a question for the thousandth time when
the answer is prominently displayed in
the system bulletins or instructions. Use
some common sense when you ask your
questions. The person who said “There’s
no such thing as a stupid question”
obviously never operated a BBS.

12. Don’t be personally abusive. It
doesn’t matter whether you like a Sysop
or think he’s a jerk. The fact remains
that he has a large investment in making
his computer available, usually out of
the goodness of his heart. If you don’t
like a Sysop or his system, just remem¬

ber that you can change the channel any
time you want. Besides, whether you
are aware of it or not, if you make
yourself enough of an annoyance to any
Sysop, he can take the time to trace you
down and make your life, or that of your
parents, miserable.

13. Keep firmly in mind that you are
a guest on any BBS you happen to call.
Don’t think of logging on as one of your
basic human rights. Every person that
has ever put a computer system online
for the use of other people has spent a lot
of time and money to do so. While he

doesn’t expect nonstop pats on the back,
it seems reasonable that he should at
least be able to expect fair treatment
from his callers.

This includes following any of the
rules for system use he has laid out
without grumping about it. Every Sysop
has his own idea of how he wants his
system to be run. It is really none of your
business why he wants to run it the way
he does. Your business is to either abide
by what he says, or call some other BBS
where you feel that you can obey the
rules. □

Archives

An archive is a group of files which have been crunched or compressed and
pulled together to form one file instead of a few. The reason files are archived
is to use less space and make uploading and downloading quicker and generally
less painful - it costs less when STD charges apply. You must UnArc a program
after you download it from a BBS and in order to do this, you must have the
appropriate archive software.

There are many archive programs being used at the moment and a few of the
more common ones are ZOO, ARC and PACK.

The latest and preferred archiver at the moment is a Public Domain effort that
goes by the name of LHARC. Lharc was crated and kindly placed in the PD
library by a chap called Paolo Ziberth. Lharc claims to create the smallest
archives at the expense of a little bit more time to do the job and after trying out
nearly all of the ones listed above, I find this to be true.

Lharc's archives are easily recognized by the suffix “.lzh” on the end of the
file names. In the same fashion, one can recognize the other forms of archives
by their respective suffixes. Most are self descriptive, ie; .zoo for ZOO archives,
.arc for ARC and so on.

Learning to use these programs is actually quite easy as the documentation
supplied with them is mostly comprehensive and excellent. (Amazing what you
can learn by reading the instructions!)

There are even programs that will archive a whole disk, bootblock and all,
and a couple that come to mind are WARP and LHWARP, the latter which has
the equivalent benefits of the file archiver Lharc . Lhwarp by Jonathon Forbes
consistently produces a smaller archive of a disk than any other disk compres¬
sion program available at the time of writing.

The beauty of using these utilities lies in the fact that when a disk is
compressed and later uncompressed, you end up with an exact duplicate of the
disk you Warped or Lhwarped. The original disk’s directory structure is
maintained right down to the disk’s original bootblock. There is even an
automatic virus checker built into the programs which checks a disk’s bootblock
for known virus’s when unwarping the disk. A great feature this, which
safeguards you against infected downloads.

Most boards have all of the above archivers for downloading and they are
usually found in PACK format. This is a handy archiver as no special software
is required to “un-pack” the archive. All you need do is execute the archived file
in the CLI and it will un-pack itself. □

AMIGA ANNUAL 36

Communications

On-Line Games

Once you’re online to one of the hun¬
dreds of public access message systems
around Australia, you’re also online to
some fun games filled not with mere com¬
puter generated characters, but other
modem users!

We called several bulletin boards and

found many offered a range of on-line
games, varying in sophistication from sim¬
ple hit-point combat to complex trading
and galactic exploration. On Sanctuary,
members will find the following menu of
on-line games, typical of many other
BBS’s:-

Sanctuary online games

<=> Main Menu
<-> Previous Menu

This months competition is playing on:
Galwars<l>

Competition Information
<R> Player Rankings
<P> Phantasia
<L> Leech

<M> M-M-M-Max Headroom

<W> Global Warfare
<E> Elynthia
<G> Galwars

<T> Poacher - Arcade game to fight for online
Time! - Ansi only

We tried out three games, M-M-M-Max Head-
room , Galwars and Poacher . All were inhabited by
an assortment of other users, with a strong core
of more enthusiastic callers pushing the higher

levels. Here’s a typical session from the game M-
M-M-M-Max Headroom ... the guards are plain
baddies, but you can also do battle with other
players (Cokeologists) in the real world.

MAX HEADROOM

[A] -

Armor Shop

[Kl-

Kill Character (reroll)

[C] -

List Coke-ologists

Gamble

Pl-

Doctor’s Office

[M] -

Graphics toggle (on/off)

[E] -

Examine other Coke-ologists

[0] -

List Today’s Fights

[F] -

Fight other Coke-ologists

[R] -

Rob Bank

[G] -

Fight guards

[S] -

Your Status

[H] -

Hall of Fame

[Wi¬

Weapons Shop

ll]-

Instructions (NEW!)

M-

Put all money in bank

H-

Withdraw Money from bank

You are attacked by 3 guards!

You have 15 hit points left

[F]ight, [R]un, [C]all Fiora, or [SJummon Max: F

You hit them. They take 25 damage!

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Auto-tiling for large formats
Hot link to Professional Draw
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Memory resident pop-up database manager

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Communications

You w-w-wasted them!

L-l-look!

A wallet containing $1800!

All guards have been eliminated! You go up to
floor #2 (61 min.)

Max Command? G

There are 20 guards left on this floor.

How many do you wish to fight? 3
You are attacked by 3 guards!

You have 25 hit points left

[F]ight, [R]un, [C]all Fiora, or [SJummon Max: F

You hit them.

They take 15 damage!

They hit you.

You take 3 damage!

They throw a poison dart at you...

You take 10 damage!

You have 12 hit points left

[Flight, [R]un, [CJall Flora, or [SJummon Max:

Fiora temporarily turns off the lights...

You recover 7 hit points back!

You have 19 hit points left

[Flight, [R]un, [C]all Flora, or [SJummon Max: F

You hit them. They take 10 damage!

You w-w-wasted them!

L-l-look! A wallet containing $1800!

(61 min.) Max Command? A
Armor ShopOptions:

[B] Buy Armor
[Sj Sell Armor
[L] List Armor
[Q] Quit

Armor Shop (B,L,S,Q,?): B
You have $4150!

Armor # to buy (? for list, 0 for none): ?

Number: 1

Strength: 1

Price: 0

Armor: Clothes

Number: 2

Strength: 2

Price: 100

Armor: Thick Jacket

Number: 3

Strength: 3

Price: 200

Armor: Toughened Animal Skin

Number:4

Strength: 4

Price: 400

Armor: Thick Pads

Number:5

Strength: 5

Price: 800

Armor: Very Thick Pads

Number:6

Strength: 7

Price: 2,000

Armor: Bullet Proof Vest

Number:7

Strength: 8

Price: 4,000

Armor: Strong Bullet Pf. Vest

Number:8

Strength: 9

Price: 8,000

Armor: Cork for opponent’s gun
Number:9
Strength: 11

Price: 20,000

Armor: Certification of AIDS
Number: 10
Strength: 12

Price: 40,000

Armor: Full Metal Jacket
Number: 11
Strength: 13

Price: 80,000

Armor: Very Full Metal Jacket
Number: 12
Strength: 15

Price: 200,000

Armor: Too Full Metal Jacket
Number: 13
Strength: 16

Price: 400,000

Armor: Empty Metal Jacket
Number: 14
Strength: 17

Price: 800,000

Armor: Sherman Tank
Number: 15
Strength: 20

Price: 2,000,000

Armor: Alias Print of Striker
You have $4150!

Armor # to buy (? for list, 0 for none):

A Strong Bullet Proof Vest costs $4,000.
Do you wish to purchase it? Yes
Armor bought!

(After a few more battles, I clocked up the
following status.)

(58 min.) Max Command? S

Name:
Cokeologist:
Last On:

Floor:

Weapon:

Armor:

Guards Left:
Money:

Money in Bank:
Daily Plays:
Calls to Fiora:
Calls to Max:
Guard Fights:
User Fights:

Hit Points:
G-g-get a job!

Andrew Farrell
#11

08/29/90

Chinese Star
Cork to put in
opponent’s gun
4

Try these Online Game
Bulletin Boards

System: Eagle’s Nest BBS

Sysop: Philip Dean
Phone: (02) 451-0535
FidoNet: 3:714/409
Baud: V.22 V.22bis
Access: Mem Reg VA
Hours: 24 Hours
DOS: MS-DOS
BBSoftware: RemoteAccess+

Info: Specialising in online games.

Sysop: Paul Cunningham
Phone: (049) 58-5493
Baud: V.21 V.22 V.22bis V.23
Access: Reg VA
Hours: 24 Hours
DOS: AmigaDos
BBSoftware: Empire

Info: Amiga Empire: A huge world simulation online
game.

System: Games Galore
Sysop: David Edwards
Phone: (042) 26-5210
GTNet: 302/026

Baud: V.21 V.22 V.22bis V.23 V.32

Access: Mem Reg VA

Hours: 24 Hours

DOS: MS-DOS

BBSoftware: GTPower

Info: Specialising in online games.

System: GraceLands BBS

Sysop: Gavin Shelford
Phone: (02) 792-3922
FidoNet: 3:712/531.1
Baud: V.21 V.22V.22bis
Access: Reg LVA
Hours: 24 Hours
DOS: Dr Dos
BBSoftware: RemoteAccess
Info: On-line games. Graphics.

System: K.K.K BBS (Kilter Kenders of Krunn)

Sysop: Jim Lynch

Phone: (02) 418-6005 Multi-Line

FidoNet: 3:711/416

Baud: V.21 V.22 V.22bis V.23

Access: Reg VA

Hours: 24 Hours

DOS: MS-DOS

BBSoftware: TBBS

Info: This BBS is mostly devoted to Online & role
playing games.

System: The Jolly Joker’s Hideout

Sysop: Frank Calvaresi

Phone: (02) 609-5453

Baud: V.21 V.22V.22bis

Access: Mem Reg LVA

Hours: 24 Hours

DOS: MS-DOS

BBSoftware: GTPower

Info: Specialising in online games.

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Product Guide

1992 Australian Amiga
Product Guide

Although not as exhaustive as the massive software guide produced
by Amazing Computing, our Amiga Annual has one very positive
advantage. The products listed following are available in Australia and
where possible, the Australian recommended retail price is listed along
with a code for the distributor. A key to these codes appears at the end
of the guide.

On the subject of pricing, some distributors are no longer publishing
recommended retaii prices. On these products, we suggest you check
with your local Amiga reseller, or take a look at the latest advertise¬
ments in the Australian Commodore and Amiga Review.

We would also like to encourage distributors and retailers to keep us
uptodatewith new products so thatwe can updateourdatabaseduring
the year. Product information, including as much information as
possible, should be faxed directly to (02) 816 4714.

Look under the following categories for what you want: Accessories,
Accounting, Animation, Books, CAD, Communications, Database,
Desktop Publishing, Desktop Video, Education, Fonts, Graphics,
Hardware, Integrated, Joystick, Language, Multimedia, Music, Pro¬
ductivity, Programming, Spreadsheet, Tutorial, Utility, Video Hard¬
ware, Wordprocessing.

ACCESSORIES our or 8 bit grey scale.

239.00

150mb Tape Streamer

CBM

1,278.00

Amiga 2000(B) Keyboard Skin

CMT

Amiga 500 Keyboard Skin

CMT

Amiga 500 Keyboard & CPU
Dust Cover

CMT

Beetle Mouse

GSO

High resolution 320 DPI mouse. Avail¬
able in a range of colours.

65.00

CDTV Caddies

CBM

Set of two.

Golden Image Brush Pen

CMR

The mouse in the shape of a pen. Great
for fine work in drawing programs, comes
with mouse accelerator program.

99.00

Golden Image Mouse

CMR

Opto mechanical with 290 dpi resolution
and micro-switch buttons and optional
Deluxe Paint II. RRP $49.95 without
Deluxe Paint II.

69.95

Golden Image Optical Mouse

CMR

Optical mouse with 250 dpi resolution
and weighing only 85 gramms.

99.00

Infrared Mouse

MAS

Cordless mouse for all Amigas

Joystick

CBM

CALL

18.00

CI-3000 Printer Driver

DTU

Requires ADPro.

67.50

269.00

Epson 6000 Driver

DTU

Controls 300dpi Epson scanner via
centronics cable (supplied) on parallel
port. Operates from within Art Depart¬
ment Professional, providing 24 bit col-

Mouse Doctor

CMT

Cleaning Kit.

Mouse House

CMT

Universal mouse cover. Max - Grey,
Millie - Pink.

Mouse Shoe

PAC

4.95

Naksha Mouse

CMT

Replacement mouse for all Amigas.

ACCOUNTING

Desktop Budget

DFL

This icon based program establishes

monthly payments, has a built-in calcula¬
tor, provides month-end reconciliations
and year-end rollovers, and quickly gen¬
erates detailed statements.

95.00

Easyledgers

DFL

Fully integrated accounting system,
sales, purchases, inventory and general
ledger. Familiar bookkeeping interface.
Point and click.

395.00

Easyledgers Service Industry
Accounting

DFL

Uses basic format of familiar bookkeep¬
ing, organising your information into com¬
puterised “books". Easy to learn. Includes
Ledger Book, Purchase Book, Sales and
Inventory Book. Requires one mega¬
byte.

549.00

Electronic Cashbook & Job
Costing

CMT

Handles 5 separate banking sections, 15
Periodical Payments, 245 User Dissec¬
tions, Audit Trial Facility, Manual/Batch
Reconciliations.

Electronic Debtors

CMT

Accounts Receivable package, ported
from MS-DOS environment.

AMIGA ANNUAL 40

Product Guide

Home Accounts

PAC

60 expenditure/10 income accounts,
detailed statements for any range of
months, monthly reports, budget cash flow
forecasts, actual/budget comparison and
more.

89.95

Personal Finance Manager
Plus

CMT

Easy-to-use way of looking after bank
account. Workbench interface allows
transactions to be entered or altered,
number of entries limited only by memory.
Includes auto balancing, account print
option & more.

System 3

PAC

System 3E

PAC

ANIMATION

Animagic Aegis

CMT

Editing program for ANIM files to pro¬
duce video style special effects, fades,
wipes, dissolves, twists, turns, zooms,
etc.

Animation Studio 3D

CMT

Animator/Images Aegis

CMT

Bitmap animator with ‘morph’ tweening.
The original 2D animator, bundled with
Aegis Images. Tweening, cut and paste
screens, only NTSC.

Deluxe Photolab

ECP

HAM painting and image processing.
Handles poster size images. Three pro¬
grams in one.

99.95

Elan Performer 2.0

CMT

Control of imagery and animation in paint
/ animation programs using RIFF and
ANIM formats. Assign imagery / anima¬
tion to keys, call to screen with a key¬
stroke.

Images Aegis

CMT

Bitmap paint system. With Deluxe Paint,
one of the two original paint programs for
the Amiga. This one has not progressed,
bundled free with Animator.

Interior Design Disk • Sculpt

CMT

3D object library for use with Sculpt/
Animate.

Interior Design Disk-
Videoscape

CMT

Kara Anim Fonts 1 - 3

CMT

Kara Anim Fonts #1 - ChromeScript, an
8 colour, formal script in caps & lower
case. Kara Anim Fonts #2 - Bullion, a
dimensional, bevelled, highlighted
uppercase Gothic 8 colour font. Addi¬
tional palettes & utilities.

Modeller 3D

CMT

3D object editor - can be used with Sculpt
3D, Videoscape 3D.

Movieclips

DFL

Collection of MovieSetter animation se¬
quences, backgrounds, props and
sounds.

49.95

Moviesetter

DFL

WYSIWYG animation package. Offers
full palette control for up to 32 colours,
colour cycling, speeds up to 60 frames
per second.

95.00

PageRender3D

CMT

3D static image rendering and 3D anima¬
tion. Also compatible with PageFlipper
Plus FX. AREXX support.

Professional Draw 2.0

DFL

Structured graphics program with as¬
sorted geometric / freehand drawing tools.
Includes reflection, rotation and distor¬
tion tools with full text capability.
WYSIWYG

275.00

Promotion

CMT

Create object and camera paths for
Videoscape animations using simple stag¬
ing directions and point and click inter¬
face. Requires VideoScape 3D.

Real 3D-14 Upgrade

CCS

Real 3D 1.3-1.4 Upgrade

CCS

Real 3D 1.4-Beginner

CCS

Real 3D Turbo/Pro

CMT

679.00

Real 3D Turbo/Pro - Fusion
Forty (68040)

CCS

779.00

Real 3D Turbo/Pro VD2001/
VD2020 Version

CCS

779.00

Sculpt Animate 4D

CMT

Objects can be created, joined together,
rotated, duplicated, expanded to pro¬
duce a complex piece.

BOOKS

Amiga 3D Graph. Prog, in
BASIC Disk

PAC

Supplementary disktoAmiga3D Graph¬
ics Programming in BASIC

19.95

Amiga 3D Graphics
Programming in BASIC

PAC

Details the techniques and algorithms
used in generating 3D graphics from
Amiga BASIC.

49.95

Amiga Adv. Systems Prog.
Guide Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk to Amiga Advanced
Systems Programmers Guide

19.95

Amiga Advanced Systems
Programmers Guide

PAC

Second volume detailing the ‘internals’
of the Amiga. Includes the latest informa¬

tion on Kickstart and Workbench 1.3.

69.95

Amiga C for Advanced
Programmers

PAC

How compilers/assembers/linkers work,
designing/programming user friendly in¬
terfaces with intuition, combining assem¬
bly language and C codes. Includes
source.

69.95

Amiga C for Advanced
Programmers Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk for Amiga C for Ad¬
vanced Programmers.

19.95

Amiga C for Beginners

PAC

Explains C in plain English using exam¬
ples. Includes beginners overview, spe¬
cial features of C, important routines,
input/output in C, tricks and tips and
more.

49.95

Amiga Cfor Beginners Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk for Amiga C for Be¬
ginners.

19.95

Amiga Desktop Video Guide

PAC

Abacus. Step-by-step guide for begin¬
ners and advanced artists, Includes 8
pages of full colour illustrations and list of
products and manufacturers.

49.95

Amiga Disk Drives Inside &
Out

PAC

All you need to Know about Amiga disk
drives.

49.95

Amiga Disk Drives Inside &
Out Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk to Amiga Disk Drives
Inside & Out.

19.95

Amiga for Beginners

PAC

Introduction to intuition, the mouse, win¬
dows, the CLI, and Amiga BASIC.

39.95

Amiga iui
iSaguuuHs

AMIGA ANNUAL 41

Product Guide

Amiga Graphics Inside & Out

PAC

A comprehensive guide to understand¬
ing and using Amiga graphics. Shows
simply and in plain English how to access
and harness the graphic power of your
Amiga. Examples for AmigaBASIC and
C.

49.95

Amiga Graphics Inside & Out
Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk for Amiga Graphics
Inside & Out.

19.95

Amiga Hardware Reference
Manual

CMT

An in-depth description of the Amiga’s
hardware including tutorial on writing As¬
sembly language programs, descriptions
of the co-processor, the playfield sprites
and blitter. Eight appendices and glos¬
sary.

Amiga Machine Language

PAC

Introduction to 68000 assembler ma¬
chine language programming, covers
68000 microprocessor address modes
and architecture, speech and sound.

49.95

Amiga Machine Language
Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk to Amiga Machine
Language.

19.95

Amiga More Tricks & Tips

PAC

Acompilation of various hints and tips for
Workbench, CLI and especially BASIC
users.

49.95

Amiga More Tricks & Tips
Disk

PAC

Supplementary diskto AmigaMoreTricks
& Tips.

19.95

Amiga Printers Inside & Out

PAC

Complete guide to using and adapting
various printer drivers using preferences
and ensuring your printer is set-up cor¬
rectly. Includes information and utility to
create your own custom drivers.

69.95

Amiga ROM Kernal Reference

CMT

Essential for the serious C programmer.
Includes Autodocs. Libraries and De¬

vices. Two volumes.

Amiga System Programmers
Guide

PAC

Covers EXEC structure, I/O requests,
interrupts and resource management,
multitasking functions.

69.95

Amiga System Programmers
Guide Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk to Amiga System
Programmers Guide.

19.95

Amiga Tricks & Tips

PAC

Tips on accessing libraries from BASIC,
custom character sets, AmigaDOS,
sound, important 68000 memory loca¬
tions.

49.95

Amiga Tricks & Tips Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk to Amiga Tricks &
Tips.

19.95

Amiga User Interface Style
Guide

CMT

AmigaBASIC Inside & Out

PAC

Tutorial on Amiga BASIC, shows in great
detail all BAS 1C com mands with plenty of
example programs.

49.95

AmigaBASIC Inside & Out
Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk to AmigaBASIC In¬
side & Out Book.

19.95

AmigaDOS Inside & Out

PAC

Internal design to practical applications
of AmigaDOS Includes reference sec¬
tion.

49.95

tDOS
& Out

side & Out

AmigaDOS Manual

CMT

Guide to the CLI. Essential for the seri¬
ous user. Third edition.

AmigaDOS Quick Reference
Guide

PAC

Details on AmigaDOS commands cover¬
ing Versions 1.2 and 1.3

19.95

AmigaVision Handbook

CMT

Best of Amiga Tricks & Tips

PAC

The cream of programming tricks and
tips have been assembled into one book
covering DOS, BASIC and more.

79.95

Computer Games Guide
Hints, Tips & Pokes

PAC

Information on over 400 games and ad¬
ventures and now includes complete so¬
lutions to 40 latest releases.

29.95

Kids and the Amiga

CMT

Includes over 30 sections with instruc¬
tional notes. Has lessons, assignments
and lively illustrations.

Making Music on the Amiga

PAC

Shows how to take advantage of the
musical capability of the Amiga and how
to make your own MIDI interface. In¬
cludes disk with music and utilities, and
disk with music examples.

69.95

The Amiga Companion

CMT

Comprehensive guide to AmigaDOS and
the CLI.

CAD

AmigaDOS Inside & Out Disk

PAC

Supplementary disk to AmigaDOS In-

Board Master

CMT

PCB Design. Printed circuit board de¬
sign.

CAPS Send Station

CCS

CAPS Work Station

CCS

Draw 2000

CMT

Structured drawing package. Latest ver¬
sion of Aegis medium level design pro¬
gram. Export files to Modeller 3D. Slow in
operation with a large drawing.

Homebuilders CAD

CMT

Non-metric. 3D design and estimating
for home and small commercial con¬
struction. Good for contractors, owner/
builders, set design, office design, farm
design real estate brokers, architects
and cabinet makers.

IntroCAD

CMT

Introductory CAD system. User friendly,
object oriented CAD program. Output
laser-like results on dot matrix printers.

IntroCAD Plus

CMT

More powerful than IntroCAD. Adds lay¬
ers, hatching, AREXX support and more
drawing tools. User-definable keyboard
equivalents.

Ultra Design

CMT

Auto-dimensioning professional CAD
system. Features paste-up module for
plotting and scaling single or multiple
drawings for output over one or several
pages.

COMMUNICATIONS

A-Talk III

CMT

For communications and terminal emu¬
lation on Amiga Includes X, Y, ZMODEM,
KERMIT, and ASCII protocols. Script
language with over 40 commands, unat¬
tended mode 60 entry phone directory,
quick menu and more.

Baud Bandit 2400 Modem

CMT

Baud Bandit 9600 Modem

CMT

GP Term

GPT

Full ANSI and Videotex communications
software for all Amigas. Supports Amiga,
IBM, VT100/103 terminal em ulations. File
transfer protocols Zmodem, Ymodem,
Xmodem, Kermit and Videotex-CET.

99.00

GPFax

GPT

Provides full send/receive fax capabili¬
ties for any Group 3 Class 2 modem
(Maestro XR9600 and similar). Com-

AMIGA ANNUAL 42

Commodore

Authorised Independent
Service Centres

1 Australian Capital Territory 1

Amalgamated Business Machines

65 Kembla Street Fyswick ACT 2609

(06) 280 4887

CompuServe

3 Dundas Court Phillip ACT 2606

(06) 285 1755

1 New South Wales

Amtech Pty. Ltd.

Suite 2, 63 Tintern Ave Telopea NSW 2117

(02) 872 6883

AVC Electronics

23 Ellen Street Woollongong NSW 2500

(042) 286 932

Basecom Computer Services

Shop 2, 20-28 Montauban Ave Seaforth 2092

(02) 907 9270

Bithramere Computers

783 Duri-Wallamore Road Bithramere NSW 2340

(067) 674 272

Central West Computer Care

(063) 322 555

Shop 4 Brook Moore Centre Bathurst NSW 2795
Computer Tech Services

43 Planthurst Street Carlton NSW 2218

(02) 547 2333

Computer and Bits

(047) 214 553

Lot 44 Regentville Road Sth PenrithRd NSW 2750

DADNJ Electronics

10 Nelson Road Cardiff NSW 2285

(049) 56 6255

Gainrun Pty Ltd

Unit 7, 27 Justin Street Smithfield NSW 2164

(02) 757 1055

Gilgandra Electronics

72 Miller Street Gilgandra NSW 2827

(068) 47 2491

Griffith Computer Repairs

69 Banana Lane Griffith NSW 2680

(069) 62 2318

Kwiktron Pty Ltd

(02) 796 4404

Unit 2/106 Canterbury Road Bankstown NSW 2200

Malcolm Graham Computer Repairs

14 Wharf Street Tuncurry NSW 2428

(065) 54 5935

P & W Croese

(064)93 2123

106 Auckland Street Bega NSW 2550

Pace Computer Services

17 Moore Street Leichhardt NSW 2040

(02) 692 7900

Sherlock Electronics

(049) 62 2514

25 Broadmeadow Road Broadmeadow NSW 2291

Sibnet Pty. Ltd.

(Rear) 13 Gibbes Street Chatswood NSW 2067

(02) 417 7600

Unitech Computer Services

94 Market Street Wollongong NSW 2500

(042) 27 1323

| Nothern Territory

Computer Support & Maintenance

34 Daly Street Darwin NT 0800

(089) 811 499

Western Australia j

Chip Busters (09) 472 3899

Shop 5, Victoria Pk Villa 910 Albany Hwy Perth WA 6101

Computer Workshops (09) 227 7373

105 Lord Street Perth WA 6000

Comfix (09)388 1665

111 Cambridge Street Leederville WA 6007

1 Queensland |

ABEC Electronics

21 Parker Street Maroochydore QLD 4558

(074) 43 6520

Keyboard Electronics

Unit 5/15 Printer Drive Southport Qld 4215

(075) 9166188

Parcom (Brisbane)

(07) 395 2211

Shop 10, White Hill Shopping Ctre Camp Hill Qld 4125

Parcom (Stafford)

1 Clifford Street Stafford Qld 4053

(07) 857 6311

PCB Electronics

502 Mulgrave Road Earlville Qld 4870

(070) 33 1217

SEQ Computer Repairs

Shop 4, 32 Brisbane Rd Bundamba Qld 4304

(07) 816 1588

South Australia 1

Adelaide Cash Register

(08) 231 1433

178 Gouger Street Adelaide SA 5000

Computer Repair Centre

16 Croydon Rd Keswick SA 5035

(08) 371 2377

Force Electronics

5 Somerset Circuit Lonsdale SA 5160

(08) 326 0901

Our Service Company

111 Adelaide Rd Murray Bridge SA 5253

(08) 32 5011

Procare

18 Kensington Road Rose Park SA 5067

(08)364 3988

Radcom

(08) 287 1191

Unit 7 100 Hewittson Road Elizabeth Sth SA 5113

Riverland Computers

Ral-Ral Avenue Renmark SA 5341

(085) 86 6725

Serviscope

368 Magill Road Kensington SA 5068

(08)364 3773

| Victoria j

Kinetic Energies

53A Gheringhap Street Geelong VIC 3220

(052) 29 2316

Megatron Computer Industries

Unit 2 62-64 Charter Street Ringwood VIC 3134

(03) 870 4017

Northwest Electronics

Unit 5, McDougall Rd Sunbury VIC 3429

(03)744 4440

Nucleus Computer Services

1048-1054 Dadenong Road Carnegie VIC 3163

(03)563 6588

Pace Computer Services

Unit 1 19-35 Gertrude Street Fitzroy Vic 3065

(03) 419 0444

Tate Palmer Technology

38B Scotsburn Avenue Oakleigh South VIC 3167

(03)543 6060

| Tasmania

Precision Solutions

295 Sandy Bay Rd Sandy Bay Tas 7005

(002) 31 1633

Commodore Business Machines (02) 427 4888

Product Guide

plete intuition interface, converts any
text or IFF file to G3 fax format, send
multiple pages, and more.

159.00

Mega 1234 Modem

AVT

V21/22/23/22Bis. Auto-dial, auto-answer,
auto-disconnect.

399.00

MegaPius 1234MMP Modem

avt

V21/22/22bis. MMP4 error correction,
MM P5datacompression, auto-dial, auto¬
answer and auto-disconnect.

449.00

MegaPius V32 MMP Modem

AVT

V21/22/23/22 Bis, also V32 9600 BPS.
Auto-dial, auto-answer and auto-discon¬
nect, with MMP4 error correction and
MMP5 data compression.

799.00

On-Line! Platinum

CMT

Terminal program allowing interaction of
micros and mainframes to enable users
to exchange information, news and data

DATABASE

Contact 2.0 with CalcKey

DTU

Personal database manager. Dials
phone, prints labels including to
PostScript, inserts data in document file
of active application. Load/save data files,
autosave, Demo disk available. CalcKey
1.3 included.

89.00

InfoFile

DFL

Amiga information management system.
Store, sort and retrieve sound, graphics
and text. Requires Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3
and one megabyte.

99.95

Data Retrieve

PAC

Use keyboard short-cuts or pull-down
menus, uses screen masks with text
styles, fonts, colours and graphics.

99.00

Mailshot Plus

PAC

WYSIWYG, fully menu driven, detection
of duplicates, main file and subset,
‘Marker’ facility for searching/sorting,
conditional searching, merge file facility.

69.95

Organize!

CMT

Create a custom filing system for organ¬
ising business records, contact lists. Up
to 128 fields per form and 254 bytes per
field. Boxed.

Professional Dataretrieve

PAC

Featuring up to 8 files that can be edited
simultaneously. Create or edit on-screen
masks for one or many files.

199.00

Superbase Personal 2 +
SuperPlan

CMT

Full multi-file relational power, VCR style
control panel, 3 ways of viewing data,
set-up and change file definitions quickly,
include images/sound/text.

Superbase Professional V4.0

ozi

Database management language, over
250 high level commands. Report gen¬
erator, Intelligent Forms Editor, exten¬
sive programmable telecommunications
facilities.

499.00

Who! What! Where! When!

DFL

Provides a phone directory, appointment
book, things to do list, alarm clock and
calendar. Event based - ideal for sales
people, or anyone who has a lot of ap¬
pointments and contacts to look after.

79.95

DESKTOP

PUBLISHING

Art Gallery I and II

DFL

Additional graphics libraries for
Printmaster Plus.

49.95

Calligrapher

CMT

Font editor - includes ColorFonts and

FontMover. Edit size, position, shape,
colour, pattern, style, kerning and spac¬
ing, italic slant, and more.

ComicArt Series

DFL

Clip art designed to be used with
ComicSetter. Funny Figures, Science
Fiction or Super Heroes.

49.95

ComicSetter

DFL

Colour Desktop Publishing for comics
lovers. Object oriented interface, selec¬
tion of clip art, import objects from IFF
paint package or clip art.

95.00

Compugraphic Decorative
Fonts Gold Disk

CMT

For Pagestream and Professional Page.
Includes Brush, Cooper Black and
Letraset Review Shadow.

Compugraphic Designer
Fonts-Gold Disk

CMT

For Pagestream and Professional Page.
Includes Bodoni Book, Microstyle, Ex¬
tended and Park Ave.

Compugraphic Outline Fonts
- Gold Disk

CMT

For Pagestream and Professional Page.
Thirty Compugraphic typefaces for high
resolution dot matrix or postscript print¬
ers.

Compugraphic Publisher
Fonts-Gold Disk

CMT

For Pagestream and Professional Page.
Includes Antique Olive, Garamond
Antiqua, Future and Book II

Compugraphic Video Fonts -
Gold Disk

CMT

For Pagestream and Professional Page.
Includes Clarendon, Guture II Bold and
Dorn Casual.

Datascan Professional

PAC

Scan from 100 to 400 dots per inch, it is
105mm wide. Supplied complete with
Datascan image scanning and editing
software. The software can easily merge
two 105mm wide scans together to form
a single A4 image.

499.00

Deluxe Print II

ECP

Create stationery, banners, cards and
the like.

99.95

Deluxe Video III

ECP

Create video presentation combining
sounds, Sonix music, IFF images and
animation. Time based editing with lim¬
ited interactive capabilities. Includes
stand-alone player.

99.95

Design 3D

DFL

3D modelling/rendering system, user
friendly interface. No HAM/true ray-trac¬
ing. Good rendering with half-tone dither¬
ing of 16 colours. 3D text generator.

95.00

Design Works

CMT

Structured drawing for the Amiga. Fast
redrawing and an intuitive interface. In¬
cludes Bezier curves, multiple drawing
layers, flexible text handling, user-defin¬
able multicolour patterns. Near-
PostScript result.

Eclips

DFL

Structured Clip art compatible with Pro¬
fessional Page or Professional Draw,
over 300 clips and a wide selection of
subjects.

139.95

Outline Fonts

DFL

Typefaces which may be used in Profes¬
sional Page and Professional Draw for
optimum output from any printer includ¬
ing 9 and 24 pin InkJets, LaserJets and
DeskJets and also fully PostScript com¬
patible.

275.00

PageSetter II

DFL

Produce newsletters, flyers, resumes,
ads, brochures and more on a dot matrix
printer. Includes unlimited number of
columns, four levels of magnification,
ruler grid, margin, measurements in
inches/pica or cms.

179.95

Pagestream 2.1

CMT

Variety in publishing programs such as
colour separation, rotation of text and
graphics, text formatting and manipula¬
tion options.

Pagestream Font Editor

CMT

Pagestream Font Pack 1

CMT

Dot Matrix and PostScript. Spokane,

AMIGA ANNUAL 44

Product Guide

Professional
Amiga User

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Devoli, Thames, Westside, Elegance,
Zip, Roman, Bookface, Calgary, Athena,
Lineprinter, LuciSans, PageStream, Cir¬
cus and Keyboard 2 Amiga.

Pagestream Font Plus Pack

CMT

Dot Matrix and PostScript. Helvetica
Narrow, Helvetica Avant Garde, Chan¬
cery, Courier, Times, Bookman, Palatino,
Schoolbook, Dingbats and Symbols.

Pagestream Fonts 1 + Pack (1
and 8)

CMT

Dot Matrix and PostScript. Spokane,
Devoli, Thames, Autobahn, Leroy Script
and Crackers.

Pagestream Fonts 2 + Pack (2
and 7)

CMT

Dot Matrix arid PostScript. Elegance,
Roman Bookface, Westside, Mars One,
Oddballs and Paint Brush.

Pagestream Fonts 4 + Pack (4
and 14)

CMT

Dot Matrix and PostScript. Courier,
Palatino, Symbols, Coliseum, Tripoli and
Anchovies.

Pagestream Fonts 5 + Pack (5
and 9)

CMT

Dot Matrix and PostScript. Schoolbook,

Helvetica Narrow, Dingbats, Bodoni,
Quadrant and Romanopolis.

Pagestream Fonts 16

CMT

Dot Matrix and PostScript. 30 Wt Solid
Round, Antiquity and Lincoln.

Pagestream Quick Forms

CMT

One hundred readymade business forms,
page layouts and assorted documents.

PostDriver 2.0

DTU

Provides support in Devs for output to a
PostScript printer. Now databases,
spreadsheets and text editors can write
directly to one. No need to reset printer to
BPLLaser jet emulation each time. Sup¬
ports colour.

99.00

Printmaster Plus

DFL

Create your own banners, greeting cards,
signs, etc. by choosing from over 120
graphics and background patterns with
eight type fonts in a variety of sizes.
Preview on screen before printing.

49.95

Pro Clipart Vol I & II

DTU

Structured clipart for the Amiga, for use
with desktop publishing and structured
art programs such as Pro Page and Pro

Draw. Australian images included.

Professional Page 2.1

DFL

Uses AGFA Compugraphic fonts for a
professional quality type. Precision ty¬
pography, unparalleled graphic control
and colour separation are featured.

469.95

Professional Page Templates

DFL

Designs for Advertisements, Envelopes,
Business Cards, Flyers, Brochures, Re¬
ports, Newsletters, Layout Grids. Also
includes font charts and glossary of con¬
temporary design terms.

79.95

Professional Scanlab

DTU

Controls the Sharp JX-300,450 and 600
colour scanners with the A2000 and
above. New, slimmer board. Global col¬
our correction, brightness and contrast
controls, positive/negative conversion,
palette selection & more.

1290.00

Publishers Choice

DFL

Basic DTP system - Kindwords V2.0,
PageSetter 1.3 and Artists Choice.

199.95

SoftClips

DFL

A collection of high quality, hi-res, bit
mapped clip art. Volume 1 - Classic art,
Volume 2 - People art, Volume 3 - Collec¬
tors, Volume 4 - Animals.

109.95

Structured ClipArt

DFL

Acollection of professionally drawn struc¬
tured clip art covering a wide variety of
topics. They can be resized and manipu¬
lated in Pro Page or Pro Draw, with non-
jaggy output from any printer.

79.95

Top Form

CMT

Design and print professional forms for
office or home Import or merge text files
with forms. True print not a graphics
dump so forms are clear and crisp.

Type - Gold Disk

DFL

High quality AFGA Compugraphic out¬
line fonts. These fonts can be used in any
point size and in any product that sup¬
ports Amiga fonts.

79.95

DESKTOP VIDEO

Amilink Consumer
(2 VCR’s)

CCS

Domestic version, suits
Sony VCR’s.

Amilink Consumer
VCR’s)

CCS

Domestic version, suits
Sony VCR’s.

Amilink Consumer
VCR’s)

CCS

Domestic version, suits
Sony VCR’s.

-C12-VP

Panasonic or

C13-VP (3

Panasonic or

C14-VP (4

Panasonic or

Art Department Professional
V2.0

DTU

Advanced 24-bit image processing pack¬
age. Reads and writes many image for¬
mats. Comes standard with loaders and
savers for IFF, GIF, PCX, Sculpt,
Digiview, Turbo, BMP, JPEG and more.
Extensive AREXX interface & more.

369.00

AMIGA ANNUAL 45

Product Guide

BCD 2000A Animation
Controller

CCS

2189.00

BCD 2000A Display Module

CCS

599.00

BCD 5000A-2 VTR’S +

Display

CCS

5319.00

Broadcast Titler II

CMT

2160 x 1440 effective res, displays mul¬
tiple IFF pictures and colour fonts, ac¬
cepts popular Amiga and colour fonts.
Full 736 x 480 overscan, 4096 palette.

480.00

Broadcast Titler II Font
Enhancer

CMT

Convert any single colour Amiga font to
Broadcast Titler 2’s four level anti-aliased
format. Eliminates jagged edges, fonts
occupy up to five times less memory,
preserves detail in reduction.

250.00

Broadcast Titler II Font Pack
#1

CMT

Ten professional high quality typefaces.
All fonts are in both anti-aliased Broad¬
cast Titler 2 and standard Amiga for¬
mats. Font sizes are 100 scan lines in
height. Each font contains full 256 ASCII
character set.

250.00

Broadcast Titler II with 35ns
Option

CCS

Provides ‘REAL’ Broadcast quality titling.

CI-3000 Film Recorder

DTU

High resolution slides (2000/4000 lines)
and prints from files on disk, can be taken
from any format supported by Art Depart¬
ment Professional. Requires ADPro CI-
3000 - camera backs for 35mm slides/
Polaroid film.

9815.00

CI-5000 Film Recorder

DTU

High resolution slides (2000/4000 lines)
and prints from files on disk, can be taken
from any format supported by Art Depart¬
ment Professional. Requires ADPro.

13048.00

Credit Text Scroller

CMT

Using point-and-click interface, select

fonts, font sizes, and scroll rates. Result
is in common ANIM format, for easy
interchange with programs like DPaint.
Automatic shadows, colours, subtitle
option and more.

Digi-View 4 Upgrade

CMT

Digi-View GOLD IV (PAL) -
Amiga 500/2000

OZI

A500/2000. digitise from 320 x 200 up to
768 x480,2-4096colour, enhanced HAM,
100% IFF compatible, advanced dither¬
ing routines.

299.00

Digi-View Professional
Colour Wheel

CMT

Perspex colour wheel for use with Digi-
View.

Digiview

OZI

Same software as Digi-View Gold, how¬
ever, the interface is different. Suits A1000
only.

353.95

Harlequin 3000

CCS

4130.00

Harlequin TV Paint

CCS

2740.00

Kara Headline Fonts 2

CMT

Two disk set with four new eight colour
fonts in two-three sizes each.
ChiselScript, Glass, Engraved and Em¬
bossed.

Kara Headline Fonts 1

CMT

Three disk set, features 10 hi-res, dimen¬
sional, up to 8 colour, uppercase fonts in
2 sizes each. Font styles in Chrome,
Marble, Brick, Granite, Chisel, Wood,
Bevel Cast, Chisel serif and Column.

Kara Starfield Fonts

CMT

Animated hi-res 704 x 480 overscan,
Starfield backgrounds in three views.
Each in a two-colour version fast loading
to dump to video and 16 colour palette
version include two different Kara Fonts
& more.

Kara Subhead Fonts

CMT

Two disk set. Scaled down version of
Headlines, offers same ColourFonts in
two smaller sizes. Allow a greater range
of flexibility in titling without having to
reduce, use in lower res at a workable
size.

Pro Video CGII

CMT

Pro Video Plus (PAL)

CMT

Video character generator. Hi-res video
with expanded screen size of 672 hori¬
zontal pixels by 500 scan line Requires
Kickstart 1.2 and 1 meg with at least 410k
of Chip & 400k fast RAM. Second drive
required.

Pro Video Post (PAL)

CMT

Provides full screen manipulation tools.
With unique keyboard user interface, full
hi-res overscan screens can be reduced,
enlarged and manipulated. Screen res of
720x480.

Protitler

FRD

A full titling package that runs on 1 meg,
provides roll, crawl and elastic effects.
Will work on A500 with 1 meg memory,
loads IFF files, will accept colour fonts up
to 8 colours, and many more features.

369.00

Scroller

DTU

Big Alternative Scroller or BAS is a fast,
smooth, simple titling package ideal for
quick work and entry level titling. Offers
fonts suitable for video use, choice of text ^
styles, sizes, colours and effects.

129.00

Title Page

CMT

Professional titling package and brush
manipulator. Titler, font manager, script
viewer, effects editor, pattern editor, list
modifier and slideshow system included.
Arexx Support, full IFFsupport, and more.

TV Show V2.0 (PAL)

CMT

Slide show generator. Add speech and
now supports AN I M’s and digitised sound,
AmigaDOS V2 compatible. One mb RAM,

2 disk drives or hard drive recommended.

TV Text Professional

CMT

Produce lettering and graphics for video
titling and desktop video presentations.
Contains program disk and Zuma Fonts
Volumes 1 - 3 and Users Guide. Full IFF
compatibility, Imb RAM, 2 drives/hard
drive rec.

Video Effects 3D (PAL)

CMT

3D video special effects and animation.
Icon and mouse driven user interface.
Supports overscan, on-line help. Oper¬
ates in hi-res mode using 2-8 of the 4096
colours.

Video PC Add - On Pack

CBM

Afterimage.

599.00

Video Tools on Tap

FRD

A multitasking utilities package that pro¬
vides much needed function for video
production. Features includecolour bars,
auto detect illegal colours, run out count
plus tones, supports overscan and many
more.

119.00

VideoTitier 3D

CMT

Video titling and special effects.

EDUCATION

Adventures of Sinbad

DFL

Exciting, animated graphics will capture
your child’s imagination while building
vocabulary and reading skills. Over 600
reading comprehension and synonym/
antonym questions. Grades 2 - 6.

59.95

Aesop’s Fables

DFL

Age-old fables depicted with graphics
and large, easy- to-read text. Includes
four different learning modules: Aesop’s
Fables, Aesop’s Spells, Spelling Skills,
and Memory Builder.

59.95

Algebra Plus Volume 1

DFL

Hands-on problem-solving experience for
pre to intermediate algebra students.
Provides explanations for each working
step of the equation, visual prompts also
help. Grades 8-12.

79.95

Algebra Plus Volume II

DFL

Concentrates on advanced levels of al-

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gebraic concepts. In-depth coverage of
polynomials and quadratic equations.
Combines with Volume I to complete first
year algebra instruction. Grades 8-12.

79.95

Animal Kingdom

DFL

Six programs to teach children about the
wonders of the animal kingdom. Grades
1 - 6 .

59.95

Better Maths

PAC

Ages 12 -16. A range of topics from
fractions to equations with improved
graphics, sound effects and playability.

59.95

Better Spelling

PAC

Ages 8 -adult. Covers punctuation, gram¬
mar, usage and more.

59.95

Bible Reader

CMT

New International version which con¬
tains all 66 books, easy-to-read modern
English translation. Large 300-thousand
character concordance/reference.

Birds ‘n’ Bees

PAC

Designed to teach children about them¬
selves and their development. Access
levels are set by parents. Explains sexual
development and goes into hazards such
as AIDS, sexual harassment and abuse
and their reactions to it.

39.95

BrainScrambler

DFL

New dimension on an old pastime - jig¬
saw puzzles. Nineteen different puzzles
to choose from, with seven levels of
difficulty. Load your own art as a puzzle.

32.00

Decimal Dungeon

DFL

Add, subtract, multiply or divide deci¬
mals, convert them to percents or frac¬
tions or vice versa to escape the crystal
caverns of the dungeon master. Incor¬
rect answers are given full screen expla¬
nations.

59.95

Designasaurus

CMT

Dinosaurs come alive with sights and
sounds. Create your own prehistoric gi¬
ant. Print out 12 different dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Discovery Kit

DFL

Experiment with colour and learn about

dinosaurs in the colouring book module.
Grades K - 3.

49.95

Dinosaurs are Forever

CMT

Build dinosaurs, print out, colour in, ex¬
periment with simulator.

Discovery 2.0

CMT

Game disk with math or spelling. Easy
playability and compelling graphics. Ex¬
tension disks also available.

Distant Suns 3.0

DFL

Features realistic colour with full screen
sky viewing option, 2,200 starts, 450
deep sky objects in an authentic astro¬
nomically correct sky, 9,100 star expan¬
sion disk available. Requires one mega¬
byte.

99.95

Dr. Spelingstein

DFL

Engaging game format with colour graph¬
ics and sound effects. Includes full
teacher control, three different games,
ability to test number facts, general knowl¬
edge etc. 164 graded word lists for use at
home.

59.95

EZ Grade

CMT.

Teacher class grading software.

First Shapes

DFL

Increase your child’s readiness for math¬
ematics, reading, writing and problem
solving with the First Byte Bear, a talking
computer friend. Grades Preschool - 3.

49.95

Flowers of Crystal

DFL

Adventure game in two parts. Includes a
teachers guide story book, audio-cas¬
sette and map.

69.95

Fraction Action

DFL

Includes a variety of addition, subtrac¬
tion, multiplication and division problems
on 3 difficulty levels.

59.95

Fun School 2

PAC

Range of three disks for ages 2 - 6,6 - 8
and 8 up. Animation and sound effects
are used to present multiple subjects in a
game style format.

49.95

Fun School 3

PAC

The range consists of three separate
programs suitable for the following age
groups:- 3 - 5 years, 5 - 7 years and 8
years up. Feature graphics, sound ef¬
fects and rewarding the child for achieve¬
ment.

54.95

Fun School 3 CDTV

PAC

Animated, educational program found in
theoriginal Fun School but wth the speed
and ease of use of the exciting Amiga

Fun School 3 in French

PAC

Animated educational program found in
Fun School 3, but in French. Reinforce
foreign language teaching. Consists of
three titles, under 5, 5 - 7, and 7 plus.

54.95

Henrietta's Book of Spells

PAC

Designed to help 7 -14year olds improve
their spelling and vocabulary. Five sec¬
tions with multiple skill levels. Word lists
contained in the package are easily modi¬
fied.

59.95

Hooray for Henrietta

PAC

Designed to help 5 -12 year old to add,
subtract, multiply and divide quickly and
accurately. Each function has 8 skill lev¬
els, strongly features animation, graph¬
ics and sound.

59.95

Jara-Tava, the Isle of Fire

DFL

Classic adventure game involving pi¬
rates, volcanoes, hidden treasure, ex¬
citement and a plot to stretch the imagi¬
nation of any middle primary child.

69.95

Junior Typist

PAC

Ages 8 - adult. Teaches children the
correct hand and finger positions and
drills them in letter, word and phrase
typing.

59.95

Kadimakara: Creatures of the
Dreaming

DFL

Explore the mists of prehistoric Australia
and discover a past of incredible rich¬
ness and variety. Information packed
teachers guide as well as activity pages,
reference pages and aguide to resources.

69.95

Katie’s Farm

Introduce children to the computer and
reinforce object/shape recognition, spa¬
tial relationships, eye/ hand co-ordina¬
tion, cause and effect and story telling
Grades Preschool -1.

59.95

Kinderama

DFL

Includes five interactive programs to in¬
troduce young children to the Amiga.

59.95

Land of the Unicom

DFL

Develop thinking and reasoning skills
while building vocabularies at the same
time. Variety of educational activities and
interactive fantasy adventure game. Re¬
quires one megabyte. Grades 4 - 9.

59.95

LCL Micro English

PAC

Ages 12 up. Advanced, revisionary Eng¬
lish language program including an audio
tape to test responses to spoken English
as well as written English.

49.95

LCL Micro Maths

PAC

Ages 12 up. Advanced mathematics pro¬
gram for the older student. Consists of 24
separate programs covering a diverse
range of topics including Fractions, Per¬
centages, Algebra, Polynomials and Bi¬
nomials.

49.95

Let's Spell at Home

PAC

Ages 4 - 9. Teaches letter recognition
and spelling with the help of computer
graphics and speech synthesis. English
version, French version also available.

49.95

Let's Spell at the Shops

PAC

Ages 4 - 9. Teaches letter recognition
and spelling with the aid of graphics and
speech synthesis. English version,
French also available.

49.95

Let's Spell Out and About

PAC

Ages 4 - 9.

49.95

Magic Maths

PAC

Ages 4 - 8. Covers simple addition and
subtractions. Mouse driven.

59.95

Magic Storybook

CMT

AMIGA ANNUAL 47

Product Guide

Magical Myths

DFL

Introduce children to Greek myths. Ani¬
mated stories including Creation of the
Gods, Pandora’s Box and King Midas.
Also includes over 600 reading compre¬
hension and vocab. questions. Grades 2
- 6 .

59.95

Math Blaster Plus

DFL

Contains five motivational learning ac¬
tivities covering 750 basic maths func¬
tions : Countdown, Ignition, Lift-off, Or¬
bit, Blasternaut Game. Grades 1 - 6.

69.95

Math Talk

DFL

Member of Talking Notebook Series.
Enter and solve your own math prob¬
lems, complete assignments, prepare
for tests, learn calculator skills and mas¬
ter the basic maths facts. Grades 1 - 6.

49.95

Math Talk Fraction

DFL

Help students master fractions, deci¬
mals and percentages. Four learning
modules. Grades 3 - 9.

49.95

Math Wizard

DFL

Four educational games with animated
graphics to make learning maths fun.

59.95

Math-a-Magician

DFL

Interactive maths program for learners of
ail ages. Helps students learn while chal¬
lenging them to think by integrating dif¬
ferent levels of difficulty into the pro¬
gram. Grades 1 - 6.

49.95

Maths Adventure

CMT

Five to adult.

Maths Mania

RAC

Covers multiplication and division and
can be operated with the mouse for ease
of use. Ages 8-12.

59.95

Maths Master

DTU

Maths educational package for Grades K
to 6. Locally produced and observes
arithmetic procedures used in Australian
schools. Images by local graphic artist.

39.00

McGee

DFL

Easy way for children to become familiar
with the computer by running the pro¬
gram themselves. Grades Preschool -1.

59.95

Mega Maths

PAC

Step-by-step self tuition and revision
mathematics course. Covers 24 topics
including straight line geometry, polyno¬
mials, logarithms, trigonometry, tangents,
binomial theory and more.

49.95

Micro French

PAC

Using a combination of computer pro-
gramsand voice cassettes, Micro French
is a complete tutorial package designed
to Introduce the French language. Cov¬
ers written and also punctuation and
comprehension.

49.95

Mix and Match

PAC

Helps develop essential pre-reading
skills. Uses pictures, familiar shapes and
specially drawn letters and numbers, the
program is designed to develop recogni¬
tion, visual recall, discrimination and
memory.

59.95

Mixed Up Mother Goose

ozi

Mother Goose takes children on an ad¬
venture to find her mixed-up rhymes and
restorethem backtonormal. Comes with
written and visual clues, easy-to-use joy¬
stick or keyboard controls. Includes full
colour map.

49.95

Mosaic

DFL

Simple picture making program. Create
or design your own, save picture to disk
or print out. Grades K - 2.

39.95

My Paint

DFL

Includes 28 drawings, animated icon
menus, various brush modes, colour cy¬
cle effects, more colouring book disks
available, sampled sounds for each pic¬
ture mode.

69.95

My Paint Colouring Disks

DFL

Disk One is Alphabet Fun, consisting of
a letter with a corresponding drawing and
accompanyingdigitisedspeech. DtskTwo
isGraphics, with Majeiixareading method
based on phonics and sight reading.

29.95

Picture Book

DFL

Create stories in words and pictures. For
Grades 1 - 6.

39.95

Primary Maths

PAC

Covers from 3rd class to secondary
school. Topics include simple addition/
subtraction and number recognition
through to percentages, fractions and
algebra.

49.95

Puzzle Book 1

PAC

Presents a set of six different puzzles
designed to test logic, planning, mental
arithmetic, spatial cognisance (mazes)
and more. Features graphics and is suit¬
able for all ages.

49.95

Puzzle Book 2

PAC

Presents a set of six different puzzles
designed to test logic, planning, mental
arithmetic, spatial cognisance (mazes)
and more. Features graphics and is suit¬
able for ail ages.

49.95

Puzzle Storybook

Read & Rhyme

DFL

Four interactive learning activities. Rhym¬
ing Rockets, Flying Saucer, Alpha Blast
and Rhyming Challenge.

59.95

Read-A-Rama

DFL

Contains five programs: Word-a-Rama,
Read-a-Rama, Spell-a-Rama, Read and
Remember, and Spell and Remember.
Grades 1 - 3.

59.95

Rhyming Notebook

ozi

Robot Readers

DFL

Built-in word games and beautiful illus¬
trations hold attention and promote early
reading skills, vocabulary and word rec¬
ognition. Titles include Chicken Little,
Aesop’s Fables, Little Red Hen, 3 Little
Pigs and more

39.95

Rody and Mastico II

PAC

Help Rody and robot Mastico to rescue
Father Christmas. Use logic and forward

thinking to plan their way thru the game.
Colour in the graphics which can be
printed out if desired.

39.95

Rody and Mastico

PAC

Help Rody and robot Mastico journey to
the Land of a Thousand Colours and
rescue the Star. Use logic and reasoning
to solve the questions, colour in the
pictures and print them out. Multiple dif¬
ficulty levels.

39.95

Sesame Street Triple Pack

CMT

Includes Letters for You, Numbers Count
and Opposites Attract.

SimAnt

CMT

SimCity

DFL

Simulation strategy without violence.
Loaded with animation and details sound
effects. Choose from an unlimited number
of different cities.

79.95

SimCity Graphics Sets 1 & 2

DFL

Set One includes Ancient Asia, Medieval
Times and Wild West. Set Two includes
Future USA, Future Europe and Moon
Colony.

59.95

SimCity Terrain Editor

DFL

Custom design landforms for use with
SimCity.

34.95

SimEarth

CMT

Smooth Talker

DFL

Speech synthesizer that converts Eng¬
lish text, numbers into high quality, natu¬
ral sounding speech.

49.95

Space Maths

PAC

This program reinforces and teaches
mathematical principles while the user
enjoys an interactive game.

49.95

Speed Read

PAC

Spell-A-Saurus

DFL

Uses multi-colour graphics and unlimited
speech to teach spelling. Move at the

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child’s pace while entering spelling lists
and playing four fun and challenging
word games. Hear words spoken. Grades
K-6.

59.95

Spellbound

DFL

Combines animation, graphics, music
and digitised speech to create a fun
learning atmosphere. Games are de¬
signed to drill and teach sight recognition
skills.

59.95

Speller Bee

DFL

Incorporates speech into software for
the purpose of improving skills. Features
customisable student or parent entered
spelling lists. Grades 1 - 9.

54.95

Tales from the Arabian Nights

DFL

Three stores with animated graphics :
“Aladdin’s Lamp’, “The Ebony Horse’
and “Ali Baba’. Enhance reading com¬
prehension, creative writing and language
art skills. Grades 2 - 6.

59.95

The Logic Master

DFL

Aims to develop high-level thinking skills
through the introduction of a broad vari¬
ety of analogy and number series activi¬
ties.

69.95

The Puzzle Storybook

DFL

Design pictures, turn them into puzzles
to solve and write stories to publish.
Unlimited text to speech and unlimited
possibilities, children create their own
tools for discovery. Grades K - 3.

49.95

The Rhyming Notebook

DFL

Quick access to an extensive rhyming
dictionary.

49.95

The Three Bears

PAC

Children must use logic, forward thinking
and planning to achieve asolution to this
fairy tale based graphic adventure. Ages
5-10.

59.95

The Word Master

DFL

Includes four educational activities de¬
signed to build word power skills: Vo-
cabularyTest, Master’s Review, Vocabu¬
lary Challenge and Master's Maze.

59.95

Things to do With Words

PAC

Show children how words can be used in
different situations. The three part pro¬
gram shows anagrams, “hidden words”
and jumbled sentences.

39.95

Typing Tutor with Word
Invaders

PAC

Unde D’s ConSoundTraBon

DFL

Concentration adapted to teach anything
from numbers to animal sounds.

39.95

Where in Europe is Carmen

San Diego

DFL

Travel through 34 European countries
learning about geography, culture and
history. Includes Rand McNally Concise
Atlas of Europe and User's Manual.

79.95

Where in the USA is Carmen

San Diego

DFL

Includes Fedor’s USA travel guide.

79.95

Where in the World is
Carmen San Diego
DFL

Chase Carmen and her gang all over the
globe as you decipher clues using your
Crime Computer and your copy of The
World Almanac. Along the way, pick up
interesting information on geography,
history and culture.

79.95

Where in Time is Carmen San

Diego

DFL

Spans the centuries from 400-1950 AD
and track Carmen across 14 countries.

79.95

Word Hunt

DFL

Designed to improve reading and com¬
prehension using a passage of text that
has some words missing and the chil¬
dren use contextual clues to replace
words. Grades 1 - 6.

49.95

WordPerfect Classroom
Packs

SWA

Includes manual, licence and templates.
For 10 students - $469, 20 students
$630,30 students -$770.

World Aflas 2.0

CMT

Direct access to information and details
on more than 170 countries plus 50 US
States. Discover history, population, lan¬
guage and customs as well as Earth
facts and information about time sectors
and more.

FONTS

Pro Video Alternate Font Set
1

CMT

Broadcast quality fonts. Only for Pro
Video Plus or Pro Video CGI. Showtime,
Competition, Bulletin and Future.

Pro Video Alternate Font Set
2

CMT

Broadcast quality fonts for Pro Video
CGI or Pro Video Plus. Encore, Pacific,
Europaand Computer.

Pro Video Alternate Font Set

CMT

Broadcast quality fonts for Pro Video
CGI or Pro Video Plus. Coup, Electric,
Fancy and Tubular.

Pro Video Alternate Font Set

CMT

Broadcast quality fonts for Pro Video
CGI or Pro Video Plus. Headline, Nova,
Optic and Network.

ProWrite Pro Fonts 1

CMT

Font collection for use with ProWrite
V2.0. Ten professional fonts.

ProWrite Pro Fonts 2

CMT

Font collection for use with ProWrite
V2.0,27 Decorative fonts and Dingbats.

Zuma Fonts Set 1 (1 -3)

CMT

Video presentation graphics. Each con¬
tains three different typestyles ranging in
size from 20 to 100 points bitmapped
typefonts for use with any IFF compat¬
ible program which uses Amiga fonts.
Req 512k.

Zuma Fonts Set 2 (4-6)

CMT

Zuma Fonts Vol 4

CMT

Video presentation graphics. Each vol¬
ume contains three different typestyles
ranging in size from 20 to 100 points.
Deco, Divine and Draft.

Zuma Fonts Vol 3

CMT

Video presentation graphics. Each vol¬
ume contains three different typestyles
ranging in size from 20 to 100 points.
Coop, Script and Fast.

Zuma Fonts Vol 2

CMT

Video presentation graphics. Each vol¬
ume contains three different typestyles
ranging in size from 20 to 100 points.
Euro, Stencil and ChelL

GRAPHICS

Art Expression

CMT

Full featured outline illustration program.
Create complex, artistic illustrations that
can be scaled and used at any size
without quality loss.

ArtPak#1

CMT

CAPS Master Station

CCS

Deluxe Paint III

ECP

All the expected functions plus wrap fills,
EHB shadow painting, faster perspec¬
tive, powerful animation operation with
all normal/special drawing tools.

99.95

Deluxe Paint IV

ECP

In addition to DPIII, version IV includes
morphing, HAM support, Improved MOVE
requestors and a complete new manual.
There’s also a WB2.0 look and feel.

199.95

Demo Maker

PAC

No programming knowledge is required
to create demos. All selections are cho¬
sen from menus, and all speeds, rota¬
tions and effects arealtered by overtyping
default values. Can be used with a
genlock.

69.95

Fine Print

CMT

Multiple gray shade print program works
with most dot matrix printers. Makes
highly detailed prints with true shades of
gray, makes near photograph quality
prints, postage stamp and mural size
prints.

Graphics Starter Kit - Aegis

CMT

Includes Animator, Images, Draw, Artpak

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A - Max H - Macintosh emulator

Interior Design Disk - Turbo
Silver

CMT

Lights! Camera! Action!

CMT

Allows the combination of animations,
IFF pictures, sounds and music.

Lunar Construction Kit

CMT

Create your own scenes of lunar land¬
scapes, asteroids and stars with high
quality full colour images.

Map Master

CMT

For Imagine

PaintMaster

CCS

Pixmate

CMT

Image processing and enhancement
tools. Features space age, image en¬
hancement techniques developed for
NASA. Performs over 3,000 special ef¬
fects.

Scapes

DFL

Two sets. Valles Marineris - 88 land¬
scapes on 6 disks from NASA & US Mars
spacecraft surveys of the planet. Califor¬
nia Set #1 - 68 landscapes on 6 disks
from US Geological Survey data.

129.95

Spectracolour HAM-E

CMT

The Art Department

DTU

Full image processing in up to 24-bit
colour. Colour separation, GAMMA cor¬
rection, digital scaling, swap between
screen resolutions. Handles most pic-

The Art Department TIFF
Loader

DTU

73.00

The Art Department Targa
Loader

DTU

73.00

The Art Department Rendition
Loader

DTU

68.00

The Art Department GIFF
Loader

DTU

66.00

Turbo Silver

CMT

Complete ray tracing and solid model
rendering engine and 3D editor to use in
the creation of photo realistic images and
animations. Complete control of the world
and camera are part of the function set.

Vidi Amiga

PAC

High speed, high accuracy framegrabber.
Take a video image from a VCR, camera
or any video source In REAL TIME, no
pausing and grabs in 16 shades of grey.
Pack includes VidiChrome colourizing
software free.

399.00

Vista

DFL

Landscape simulation software, a col¬
lection of virtual realities. Features easy
to use point and click interface, user
controlled creation of rivers/Iakes, saves
as std IFF files, sound. Requires one
megabyte.

149.95

VistaPro

DFL

Creates beautiful painting-like views and
animations of real places. Incorporates
many features asked for by users but
which could not be incorporated in the
original one meg Vista. Requires 3.5
megabytes.

229.95

HARDWARE

1084S - Stereo Monitor

CBM

RGB and Composite Video Inputs, Stereo
Sound

499.00

1930 VGA Monitor

CBM

585.00

1960 Multisync Monitor

CBM

885.00

256Kx81MbChip DRAM
Pack - Baseboard

CMT

256K x 81 Mb Chip Pack for
EXP8000+

CMT

3.5" Internal Drive for A500

MAT

Full kit with long button.

199.00

3.5" Internal Drive for A2000

MAT

199.00

4 Way Joystick Adaptor

CMT

Enables four joysticks to be connected
simultaneously for games which support
four players.

5.25" External Drive

MAT

289.00

512Kb Internal RAM for A500

MAT

89.00

68040 Accelerator

CCS

Complete with four megabytes of 32bit
RAM 28Mhz 68040 Accelerator card

3740.00

A-Maxll

DTU

Employs hardware and software to emu¬
late a Mac. Requires Mac ROMS. Exter¬
nal Mac drive recommended. No
AppleTalk Support. Uses Amiga parallel/
serial. Software Only.

TBA

A-Maxll Plus

DTU

New release of A-Max due early 1992.
Compatible with Mac System 7.0 and
System 6.xx. Able to use Amiga drives
directlyto read/write Mac disks. Requires
expansion slot A2000/A3000 or A500
with expansion chassis.

TBA

A-Maxll ROMS

DTU

ROMS for A-Max II.

TBA

1 and Arazok’s Tomb. Entry level anima¬
tion package. Excellent value for money.

Imagine

CMT

24-bit rendering techniques which allow
Amiga owners to compete in the world of
professional animations. Next genera¬
tion in rendering animation systems for
the Amiga.

ture format including A-HAM. Various file
loaders available.

119.00

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A.M.A.S. Sound Digitizer

CMT

Advanced MIDI and sampler. Suit A500/
2000

A1011 3.5" External Floppy
Drive

CBM

189.00

A2000 GVP RAMS/ (2mb)

8Mb RAM expansion for the A2000.
Autoconfigs with 2, 4 6 or 8Mb SIMM
RAM fitted.

442.00

A3000 68040 Accelerator
Card

CMT
OK RAM

A500 2Mb RAM Board wth
1Mb

MAT

299.00

A500 2Mb RAM Board wth
2Mb

MAT

399.00

A500 Base System

CBM

799.00

A501 512kb Expansion/Clock

CBM

99.00

A590 20Mb Hard Drive

CBM

699.00

A620 Comp.

Vide/RF Modulator

CBM

Acre AGS-20

AC I

External composite, variable colour key.
Analogue/digital switch, dissolve, over¬
ride key switch. Atari or Amiga RGB
monitor connection. BNC connectors.

895.00

Amiga 1352 Mouse

CBM

57.00

Amiga 20Meg Floptical

DTU

Internal and external version available.
Combines optical tracking with magnetic
media to obtain high density storage on
special floppy disks.

TBA

Amiga External Disk Drive

CMT

External disk drive.

Amiga Hand Scanner

MAT

Hand held 400 DPI black and white scan¬
ner. Includes touchup software.

399.95

Amiga M4 Mouse

PAC

Specifically designed mouseto withstand
constant handing. Uses brass rollers to
eliminate the rusting problem common
on other mice.

49.95

Amiga Mouse

MAT

39.95

Amiga Optical Mouse

MAT

99.00

Amiga Power Supply

CBM

97.50

AmigaNet

GPT

Industry standard Ethernet network for
Am iga 500 and Am iga 2000. True peer to
peer networking. A500 = $700.00 (ex¬
tax), A2000 = $900.00 (ex-tax).

ATonce-Plus

FNH

This 80286/16 emulator will fit the 500
and the 500 Plus and the 2000. No
additional adapters are required

499.00

AXRAM-4

GSO

Internal memory board with clock for the
A500. Supports 2meg of Chip RAM when
installed with the super fat Agnus. Avail¬
able in 0, 2 or 4 meg configurations. 0
meg = $195, 2 meg = $345, 4 meg =
$495.

Barcode Reader

GPT

Barcode reader for Amiga multimedia
applications.

GDTV Player & Bonus Titles

CBM

1,599.00

ColourBurst

MAS

24-bit, for all Amigas, plugs into RGB
port. Full RGB output, 16 million colours.
Supports major paint programs.

CALL

Crystal Sound

MAS

Ultra low noise, crystal locked, jitter free
stereo audio digitiser. Features sample
rates up to 70k in stereo, dual AD con¬
verters, dual mic and line inputs with
level adjust. Perfect Sound compatibility.

CALL

D’Droid

GSO

Small motor to control the Digi View col¬
our wheel. Fully compatible with the
DigiView DigiDroid.

85.00

D’Fixer

GSO

Small hardware interface that gets rid of
the ‘herringbone’ pattern that is present
when using a home colour video camera
with the DigiView digitisers.

79.00

Dataflyer SCSI Interface for
A2000/3000

CMT

DCTV(PAL)

Display, digitise and animate 24-bit im¬
ages in real time on stock Amiga model.
Includes paint program and examples
images. Connects to video port, parallel
port and a composite monitor (1084 suit¬
able)

1299.00

Digi-Droid

OZI

Rotates Digi-View colour wheel with con¬
trol direct from Digiview software. Con¬
nect to joystick port.

159.00

Digital Sound Studio

8-bit sound recording, editing and
processing. Software and hardware in¬
cluded.

199.00

Double Talk A2000/3000

CMT

A full AppleTalk Network system allow¬
ing Amiga and Macintosh computers to
share information and resources or only
Amiga Network to operate at double
speed. Also available for the A500.

Dr. T’s Phantom

CMT

SMPTE Sync.

Dual Serial Board

DTU

By ASDG. Additional two highspeed se¬
rial ports for the Amiga Allows use of all
serial ports simultaneously. Fully com¬
patible “serial device’ driver. DOS han¬
dlers provided to allow control over ex¬
pansion serial ports.

399.00

EXP8000+ RAM Expansion

CMT

To 9Mb. 2Mb Populated

Fireball A2000

MAS

True DMA SCSI controller/Hard Card.
Auto-boots, auto-mounts.

CALL

Flash 2000

MAS

SCSI/RAM card which allows you to add
a high performance SCSI controller, drive
and other SCSI devices, and 8mb or
RAM using only one slot. Two versions -
8 bit economy and 16 bit turbo model.

299.00

Flicker Master

CMT

Works with all Amiga models, greatly
reduces interlace flicker. Attaches easily
to monitor and improves control in all
resolutions. Hi-res flicker 14 M screen fil¬
ter

Frame Grabber (PAL)

CMT

Realtime.

Game Controller l/R

CBM

CALL

Genius GM-7E Mouse

PAC

One of the world’s largest manufacturers
of mice, Genius, has developed this at¬
tractively styled, solidly built and eco-

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nomical mouse.

Genlock Card

CBM

Golden Gate

FNH

A 386SX based PC/At emulator devel¬
oped by Vortexthat will convert an Amiga
2000/3000 into a 386SX compatible.
Designed as a bridgeboard that closes
the gap between Zorro II slot and the 16
bit ISA-Slot.

Golden Image Hand Scanner

CMR

Hand scanner with touchup software,
black and white or gray scale from 100
dpi to 400 dpi, will save files in multiple
formats.

399.00

Golden Image Master 3A-D

CMR

Three and a half inch drive with track
display.

199.00

Golden Image Master 3A

CMR

Three and a half inch floppy drive.

159.00

Golden Image RC2000 RAM

Card

CMR

A2000 internal 2 - 8mb RAM card with
2mb on board. Uses Imb x 1 chip to
upgrade.

449.00

Golden Image RC1000 RAM

Card

CMR

A500 external 2 • 4mb RAM card with
2mb of auto configure RAM on board.
Upgradable to 4mb and can be
piggybacked to give total of 8mb (plus
Imb internal). Looks like a harddrive,
and will work on some A1000’s.

329.00

GP Touch

GPT

Touch screen driver software for
MicroTouch touch screens. Emulates the
mouse including access to menus. In¬
cludes intuitionised Touch Screen Pref¬
erences prog. Fully configurable with
three operational modes.

200.00

GVP G-Force 040

28Mhz 68040 Accelerator for the A3000.

CALL

GVP Series II Accelerator

Includes a 68030 CPU, 68882 FPU, 1 -
16 Mb of 32-bit wide RA and a built-in
autobooting high performanceSCSI hard
disk controller. Also available with 52/
105/170 Quantum SCSI. Other options
also available.

1 , 265.00

GVP Series II SCSI HD500 +
8Mb RAM Controller
PP

Same specs as for the Sll A2000 but for
the A500 and with GVP custom ‘mini-
slot’ expansion port. A500-HD/ 52Q &
A500-HD/105Q.

CALL

GVP Series II SCSI Haiti Can!
+ 8Mb RAM
PP

With Controller. High performance A2000
SCSI Controller, 8mb RAM expansion
and hard card. Supports any SCSI de¬
vice under the sun including tape drives,
removable hard disks, CD ROMS and
optical drives.

CALL

GVP/PC286 16Mhz Emulator

forA500HD

Plugs into ‘mini-slot’ of GVP’s A500HD
unit.

Harlequin 1500

CCS

Imagic-Modules 1 & 2

CCS

To suit VD2002/VD2020

Imagic Module 1

CCS

To suit VD2002/VD2020

Imagic Module 2

CCS

To suit VD2002/VD2020

IMG Scan

PAC

Attaches to printer head and a set of
optical fibres “read 1 ’ whatever image is
fed through the printer. Images can be
saved in IFF format for use in other
programs. Available for 500/2000 and
1000.

299.00

Impact Vision-24 PAL (PVA)

Mufti functional video adaptor for the
A3000 and A2000IV-24 plus design soft-

3 , 000.00

Keyboard l/R

CBM

Harlequin 2000

CCS

Harlequin 4000

CCS

Hitachi HV720 (PAL) CCTV
Camera

CMT

Sixteen millimetre manual lens. For use
with DigiView.

Kickboard Plus

UNI

Suits A500/A2000, especially suited for
A500 owners with 68000 based add-ons.
Includes 3 position switch, logic chip
control protects ROMS and Gary chip,
easy plug in fitting.

59.95

M.A.S.T. 5.25“ External Drive

MAS

CALL

M.A.S.T. 68000 Accelerator

MAS

Runs at 25Mhz.

CALL

M.A.S.T. CD ROM

MAS

Over 600mb Toshiba mechanism inside
MASTs own casing. Power supply and
software included.

CALL

M.A.S.T. Removable Hard

Drive

MAS

44mb, Syquest or Ricoh mechanism in

MASTs own casing. Twelve month war¬
ranty.

CALL

Master 3A

CMT

External disk drive for use with A500
only.

Microbotics .5 Mb board for

A500

Microbotics .5 Mb (21 and over) call for
price.

75.00

Micromegs

MAS

Alternative to A501.512K ram and bat¬
tery backed clock

Microtouch Plus NEX 3D

GPT

Includes monitor.

3100.00

MicroTouch Touch Screen

GPT

Industrial quality “MicroTouch” (c) clear
glass capacitive touch screens for any
Amiga monitor. Provides serial output.
Price ex-tax, without monitor.

1728.00

Minimegs

MAS

2 Megabytes of external RAM for A500/
A1000. Auto con- figure, low power, 1
Meg DRAMs, RAM tachometer, auto
configure LED, compatible with A501.

Minimegs A50Q/A1000

MAS

2mb external memory. FAst RAM, Zero
wait states, autoconfigures. Also avail¬
able in 8 mb.

CALL

Mouse l/R

CBM

Octoplus A2000

MAS

0 mb internal memory. Fast RAM, zero
wait states, auto configures. Twelve
month warranty.

CALL

Parallel Printer Cable

CBM

Perfect Sound V3.0 A500/
A2000

CMT

A two channel stereo audio digitiser with
complete sound editing software and
library of pre-recorded sounds. Compat-

AMIGA ANNUAL 52

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ible with most musical programs.

Personal Memory Card

CBM

Pocket AMI

MAT

Portable MIDI unit.

Portable SCSI Interface

MAS

Suites A500, A1000, A2000, and A3000.
Plugs into parallel port, pass thru for
seven SCSI devices.

CALL

Rendale A8806

GPT

Professional quality genlock suitable for
videodisc and multimedia applications.
Professional RGB and composite video
out, extensive software control including
chromakey on any of 8 colours, genkill.

2200.00

RocHard External Disk Drive

MAT

External hard drive for the A500. Forty
megabytes upgrade to 2,4 8 megabytes.

799.00

RocLite 3.5" External Drive

MAT

Also available in black $179.00.

169.00

ROM Switcher

GSO

Small circuit card that allows both Work¬
bench 1.3 and the new 2.0 ROMS to be
installed. Switch selectable.

Sally

CCS

Realtime 24 bit buffer. Base unit stores
1.5s of 24 bit video, expandable to 8.8s.

SCRAM 2000/8

MMT

0 meg. 2 meg - $449, 4 meg - $599, 8
meg - $899.

299.00

SCRAM 500

MMT

0 meg. 2 meg - $449, 4 meg - $599, 8
meg - $899.

349.00

SCRAM/16

MMT

0 meg. 2 meg - $499, 4 meg - $649, 8
meg - $949.

399.00

SCSI Card

CBM

Series IIA2000-SCSI
Mounting Bracket

Sharp JX-100 Scanner
(with s/w)

DTU

Sophisticated portable colour scanner
giving 24-bit scans at up to 200 dpi.
Works with bundled Scanlab software.

1490.00

Sharp JX-320 Scanner

DTU

Includes GPIB connector and requires
Professional Scanlab. A4 format flat bed
colour scanner. 24 bit scans, up to 300
dpi.

2643.00

Sharp JX-450 Scanner

DTU

Requires Professional Scanlab. A3 for¬
mat flat bed colour scanner. 24 bit scans,
up to 300 dpi.

6795.00

Sharp JX-600 Scanner

DTU

Requires Professional Scanlab.

22595.00

Sharp JX-730 Colour Inkjet
Printer

DTU

Colour inkjet printer. Sophisticated tech¬
nology with self cleaning nozzles. Indi¬
vidually replaceable colour refills. 180
dpi in bright colour.

3073.50

SIMM Memory for GVP SCSI/
RAM Controllers

$188.00 inc. per 2mb.

188.00

Sound Master Plus

CMT

Digitiser, includes AudioMaster III.

Stereo Master

CMT

Stereo Speakers

CBM

SyQuest Removable Hard
Disks

44mb or 88mb units. Will connect to all
GVP SCSI controllers. Fast reliable
backup and extra storage solution.

CALL

TC200 Transcoder

FRD

To convert composite to Y-C to compos¬
ite. This enables the use of S-VHS equip¬
ment with existing composite recorders.

The Answer

GSO

Interface your Amiga sound output to the
telephone line. When coupled with a
sound sampler, allows full answering
machine functions. All Australian prod¬
uct.

145.00

The Answer Plus

GSO

As The Answer but packaged with Audio
Engineer Junior.

299.00

The Brush

MAT

Mouse device that is held like a pen, with
DPaint II.

79.95

Tiny Tiger II

MAS

Portable SCSI hard drive, 45mb, 90mb,

136mband 182mb. Slimline.

Track Ball Controller l/R

CBM

Twin Drive

MAS

Two 3.5" drives in slimline case. Same
features as the Unidrive.

CALL

Ultraslim 3.5" External Drive

MAT

159.00

Unidrive

MAS

Slimline 3.5" no-click drive, pass thru,
on/off switch. Upgradable to Enhanced
Unidrive, 12 month warranty.

CALL

Unidrive Enhanced

MAS

Slimline 3.5" drive, track LED display,
hardware virus protection.

CALL

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Blitz BASIC Professional

MAS

To be released approx. March 1992.

Amos BASIC that allow you to manipu¬
late objects, animate objects or points or
even animate surface details. Speeds up
to 25 frames per second.

89.95

Competition Pro Phantom

CMT

Black and white.

INTEGRATED

All-in-One

DFL

Allows you to write, paint, create music
and play games. Consistent easy to use
graphical interface and concise pull-down
menus. Includes WRITE, PAINT, MU¬
SIC, and Silhouette, Bouncer-Shaker and
Intrigue.

99.95

CALL

GX112 Joystick

PAC

Suitable for Commodore 64, Amstrad
CPC, Atari and Amiga Autofire.

9.95

DevpakV2.0

CMT

Edit/Assemble/Debug. Assemble source
up to 70,000 lines per minute, editor runs
under intuition - menu/ keyboard control.
Requires Kickstart 1.2 or later.

AMOS The Creator

PAC

Full development languageforthe Amiga,
over 500 different commands using a
simple BASIC like structure Animation,
sound and graphics are handled with
ease. On-line support to registered users
thru Pac is free.

135.00

Joystick Extension Cable

CMT

Three metre cable, wired for mouse.

Gold Disk Office

DFL

Turns your Amiga into a fully integrated,
easy-to-use and highly productive office.
Includes everything you need for word
processing, database management,
spreadsheet calculations and business
graphics. Needs 1Mb.

399.95

RMT118 Joystick

PAC

Suitable for Commodore 64, Amstrad
CPC, Atari and Amiga

6.95

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RMT120G Joystick

PAC

Autofire and microswitch. Suitable for
Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari and
Amiga

19.95

Media Station

CMT

Comprises Digi-View Gold 4.0, Digi-Paint
and Elan Performer.

339.00

AREXX

CMT

Task intercommunication port - will be
standard in WB1.4. Enables one applica¬
tion to send commands to another -
integrate programs of a similar nature.

G.F.A. BASIC 3.5

CMT

Includes over 300 commands, inline C
and assembler commands, extensive
Amiga commands with sub-menus and
built-in file requester and runtime inter¬
preter.

RMT120R

PAC

Autofire and Microswitch. Suitable for
Commodore64, Amstrad CPC, Atari and
Amiga.

19.95

PowerWorks

DFL

Includes three separate programs in one
package. Maxi- Plan Plus, KindWords
and InfoFile.

299.95

Assempro

PAC

Integrated assembler, disassembler,
debugger & editor.

169.00

G.F.A. BASIC Compiler

CMT

Starblazer

MUL

Auto fire, top fire button.

JOYSTICK

Blitz BASIC

MAS

Alternative fully integrated BASIC. Faster
and includes built-in compiler. Com¬
mands to handle everything you need to
make a top class game.

CALL

HiSoft BASIC

CMT

Editor/compiler, selective runtime rou¬
tines, symbolic debugger. Allow compat¬
ible C or assembler code incorporated as
functions/subroutines.

CG200 Joystick

PAC

Microswitch only. Suitable for Commo¬
dore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari and Amiga.

16.95

Starcursor

MUL

Solid construction, 3 yr guarantee, 3 fire
buttons, suction caps, quality switches.
Recommended! (Split button and 8/4
way selector).

59.95

CG220AQ Joystick

PAC

Autofire and microswitch. Suitable for
Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari and
Amiga.

19.95

LANGUAGE

AC BASIC

CMT

Compiler, fast with graphics. Indexed
documentation. Compatible with
AmigaBASIC interpreter, run up to 50%
faster.

Competition Pro Extra

CMT

With autofire.

Competition Pro Aussie

CMT

Green and gold.

Competition Pro 5000 Clear

CMT

Sturdy design, see-thru body and steel
shaft with micro switches. Also has non-
skid feet.

MSP

Piano teaching system, keyboard and software.

699.00

AC Fortran

CMT

Implemented to ANSI 77 Fortran stand¬
ard. Includes debugger, linker, library
manager, runtime library, IEEE math and
C interface.

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PAC

Generate outstanding 3D effects. Amos
3D adds more than 30 new commands to

Competition Pro Glo-Red

CMT

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HiSoft BASIC Extend

CMT

HiSoft BASIC Pro

CMT

HiSoft C Interpreter

CMT

HiSoft High Speed Pascal

CMT

Lattice C ++

CMT

Lattice C Development
System

CMT

Lattice CV5.10

PAC

Comprehensive C language development
system for the Amiga. Includes
CodeProbe (source level debugger),
Code Profiler, Global Optimizer plus Unix-
like utilities.

399.00

Modula 2 (Benchmark)

CMT

Integrated compiler, linker and EM ACS
editor. Compiles at 10,000 lines per
minute with burst speeds of up to 30,000

lines/minute. Support AmigaDOS, Intui¬
tion, Excel and Modula 2.700 pages of
documentation.

Modula 2 C Language Library

CMT

Add-on library product for Benchmark
Modula 2. C language library functions
for use in Modula 2.

Modula 2 IFF/lmage Resource
Ubrary

CMT

Add-on library product for Modula 2
Benchmark. Access images at run-time
as resource from Modula 2.

Modula 2 Simplified Library

CMT

Simplify creation of intuition screens,
windows, gadgets and menus. Includes
functions for double-buffered animation,
bobs, sprites, speech, console and de¬
vice.

Modula 2 Source Level
Debugger

CMT

An interactive, mousedriven, source level
debugger. Includes other advanced pro¬
gramming tools.

SAS “C” Development
System

CMT

SAS/C Compiler for AmigaDOS (formerly
Lattice C). Complete programming envi¬
ronment with Compiler, global optimizer,
blink overlay linker, LSE screen editor,
source level debugger, documentation
and more.

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For A3000.

Visionary

CMT

This program is specifically for the crea¬
tion of text, sound and animated graphic
adventure games. High-speed compiler
and fully interactive debugger. From Ae¬
gis. Intuition interface available sepa¬
rately.

MULTIMEDIA

AmigaVision

CBM

Create interactive presentations for edu¬
cation and training. Also ideal for video
titling. Various transitions between
screens. Anim OPT 5 support. DBase
compatible database.

199.00

CanDo Intro Pack

DTU

Tutorial intensive package designed to
get new CanDo users up to speed as
quickly as possible. Includes 7 CanDo
decks on disk and a manual. Information
on installation, tool-type settings, techni¬
cal topics etc.

52.00

CanDo Pro-Pak

DTU

Examples of Can Do generated programs,
called ‘decks’. Includes freely

Horizontal unfold
Horizontal fold
Collapse to center
Expanding Quadrants
Snail Dissolve
Large Dissolve
Wipe fron left
Wipe fron right
Wipe fron top
Wipe fron botton
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and extensions to CanDo.

52.00

CanDo V1.5/1.6

DTU

Object based programming. Powerful
scripting language and well-integrated
ARexx interface. Desktop Utilities regis¬
tration includes a year’s free member¬
ship to the CanDo User Group.

169.00

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MediaShow

DFL

A multi-media sequencer which allows
you to combine and sequence anima¬
tion, graphics, music and sound effects
into movies and presentations. Also has
built-in video titler. Requires one mega¬
byte.

125.95

Presentation Master

CMT

Sequence presentation graphics, anima¬
tion and assorted transitions to create full
interactive presentations. Powerful draw¬
ing tools and text positioning power.

Scala

Presentation and titling software. Includes
60 backgrounds, many fonts and 38 in¬
credible video wipes and transitions.

490.00

Showmaker

dfl

Quickly & easily mix video animation,
wipes, titles & multi-channel sound tracks.

529.95

AmigaVision - Authoring System

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Product Guide

Dr. Ts Tiger Cub - Popular Midi music software

MUSIC

Alter Audio

CBM

Includes MIDI interface, DR Ts Tiger
Cub and necessary cables. MIDI key¬
board suggested.

249.00

Audio Engineer

GSO

Sound sampling and editing software
suite. Supports stereo or mono at sample
rates of up to 56,000 sample per second.
V2 supports 4 times oversampling,
stretch/compress samples in time with¬
out affecting pitch.

99.00

Audio Engineer Gold

GSO

Bundled with a special version of Audio
Engineer. A sampler card that installs
inside either A2000/A3000 56,000 sam¬
ples in stereo, dynamic range compres¬
sion on recording/dynamic range expan¬
sion on playback.

Audio Engineer Plus

GSO

For the serious or professional user.
Features printer pass-thru, MIC and line
inputs and up to 56,000 sample per sec¬
ond rates in stereo. Packaged with Audio
Engineer. For A1000/A500/A2000/
A3000.

369.00

Audio Engineer Jnr

GSO

Audio Engineer packaged with mono
sampler. Microphone and line inputs pro¬
vided with electronic level control. For
A1000 / A500 / A2000 / A3000 comput¬
ers.

189.00

Audio Master IV

GSO

See entry for Audio Engineer. Audio En¬
gineer is sold and marketed in the USA
as Audio Master.

Bars&Pipes

DFL

Includes Pipeline, The Toolbox, The
Sequencer, and The Editor. First icon-
based, object-oriented musical compo¬
sition environment. Requires one mega¬
byte.

299.95

Bars&Pipes Add-on Series

DFL

Consists of five collections of Tools and
Accessories to enhance Bars&Pipes.
Includes MusicBox, The Internal Sounds
Kit, Rules for Tools, MusicBox B, and
The Multi-Media Kit.

79.95

Bars&Pipes Professional

DFL

Icon based, object oriented musical com¬
position environment. Co-ordinate mu¬
sic with video, film, tape recorders and
other computer applications. Reads and
writes standard MIDI file format. Req.
Imb/MIDI interface.

549.95

CD Remix

CMT

Lets you take your favourite music CD
and resequence pieces to make your
own extended tracks/remixes. Icon driven
language. Over 100 different samples
are included.

D Audio

GPT

Plays stored audio sound direct from
hard disk. Unlimited file sizes. Four chan¬
nel selections plus other options. Sup¬
ports AudioMaster sequences. Compat¬
ible with most Amiga authoring software.

50.00

Deluxe Music Construction
Set

ECP

Includes MIDI, cut and paste, on screen
keyboard and print-out options. 15 IFF
sampled sounds.

99.95

Dr. T’s Copyist Apprentice

CMT

Print music and scores on a dot matrix or
laser printer.

Dr. T’s Copyist DTP

CMT

Full Postscript laser printer output of
music scores.

Dr. T’s ESQapade

CMT

Graphic editor/librarian for the ESQ-1
and SQ-80.

Dr. T’s KCS Level II

CMT

Does everything of the basic program
plus 16 more screens of algorithmic and
global editing.

Dr. T’s Keyboard Control
Sequencer V3.5

CMT

Plus Level II. Three modes of operation
- track, open and song. Edit options
include merge, echo, solo and mute.
Controlled through screen-displayed tape
recorder.

Dr. Ts MIDI Recording Studio

CMT

Mouse activated. Use keyboard as well
as true external MIDI devices as a musi¬
cal keyboard. Mute and unmute tracks,
cut, copy, paste or transpose, no print
out.

AUDIO ENGINEER II

Professional Quality Amiga Sound Sampling and
Editing Systems

PROUDLY MADE IN AUSTRALIA

No matter whether you are into programming games, doing
live gigs or just creating the ultimate Amiga multimedia
production, AUDIO ENGINEER is the tool you need. The
worlds number one software package, coupled with superior
quality hardware, allows you to create the ideal sound

Now featuring:
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* Digital Filtering
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plus more....

AUDIO ENGINEER (s/w only) $99 AUDIO ENGINEER JUNIOR $189

AUDIO ENGINEER PLUS $369 (RRP)

GSOFT Pty Ltd

PO Box 59

Elizabeth SA5114

Available from your
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Ph & Fax (08) 254 2261

Dealer Enquiries Welcome

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Audio Engineer is a trademark of RamScan Software

AMIGA ANNUAL 57

Product Guide

Dr. T’s Model A MIDI A500/
2000

CMT

Dr. Ts Music Mouse

CMT

Musical composition using the mouse.
Internal sounds or MIDI data are created
according to mouse movements. Ideal
tor beginners or tor the experienced to
improvise and explore.

Dr. Ts Tiger Cub

CMT

A12 track sequencer with realtime graphic
editing and standard musical notation
which can be printed out too. Optional
MIDI output. For the beginner or semi-
protessional.

Dr. T’s X-OR Editor

CMT

Harmoni

DFL

MIDI sequencer which allows you to
create multiple tracks ot MIDI music
which you can edit, combine into songs
and then replay on your MIDI keyboard.

149.95

Jam

CMT

Kawai Funlab Music System

KAW

Keyboard 61 note, built-in stereo speak¬
ers, 100 sounds, 100 rhythms. Software
5 track sequencer (allowing overdubbing
and multitrack recording) with music no¬
tation display, lyricdisplay, Compact MIDI
interface.

MIDI Connector

DFL

MIDI interface which allows you to send
and receive digital data. Chain several
instruments together and use a simple
MIDI sequencing program to play them
all back at the same time.

99.95

Miracle Piano System

MSP

Piano teaching system, keyboard and
software. - $eeboxonp54

699.00

Quartet

CMT

With Quartet your Amiga becomes afour
voice polyphonic synthesiser and re¬
corder. Allows playback of up to four
instruments simultaneously, makes four
channel composition easy.

Sonix

CMT

Digital synthesizer supports eight MIDI
voices, up to 32 channels, and IFF for¬

mat, create, modify, edit. Save to disk or
dump to printer as sheet music.

Sonix Soundtrax Vol. 1 & 2

CMT

Each volume contains two disks of songs
crated with sampled instruments. Inter¬
acts with Sonix.

PRODUCTIVrrY

3D Construction Kit

CMT

3D Professional

CMT

Fast, 3D polygonal rendering and anima¬
tion. Also handles fractal landscapes,
trees and clouds.

Business Card Maker

PAC

Graphic editor, mix text and graphics,
printer support

69.95

Business Card Maker Blank
Card Stock

PAC

29.95

Day by Day

PAC

Full calendar/diary/planner, sort appoint¬
ments by date and time of day, urgent/
overdue notice boards, month/ week/
day planner, search facility, automatic
reminders.

59.95

Hyperbook

DFL

Hyperbook is a Free-Form Application
Generator and Information Manager.
Create applications, presentation edu¬
cational and training programs, interac¬
tive demos.

139.95

ifyperb(H)k

i T f j

PROGRAMMING

Inovatools

DTU

A collection of over 30 subroutines for

Amiga programmers to minimise Intui¬
tion programming effort and increase the
variety of interface options Includes file
requestor, pop-up menu, list handler and
more.

129.00

Metascope

DTU

Application program debugger that pro¬
vides a multi-window environment to
observe and control the execution of
your application program. Gives break¬
point to trace capabilities, full symbolic
support and more.

Turbo Text

CMT

A text editor which allows you to custom¬
ise the editor to any compiler including C,
Pascal and Modula II. Macros, hex edit
window, complete outlining, text tem¬
plates, complete remapping of keyboard
and menus etc.

SPREADSHEET

Advantage

DFL

Spreadsheet, database, presentation
graphics program which includes ARexx
support, macro commands, precise out¬
put control. Select from pre-configured
16 colour templates.

275.00

DG Calc

PAC

Menu/command driven, individually ad¬
justable columns, integrates with other
programs, windowing, 52 user defined
variables, 9 programmable function keys.

89.95

Flipside

CMT

Prints spreadsheets of unlimited size.
Sideways print utility.

MaxiPlan Plus

CMT

Includes a macro feature and additional
utilities as well as features of MaxiPlan
500.

P-Stat

CMT

Interactive statistical data analysis pack¬
age designed for marketing research and
academic situations, offers over 50 sta¬
tistical functions and 25 graph types,
including animated charts. Power limited
only by RAM.

TUTORIAL

Amiga Hard Drives

CCS

Tutorial videotape.

45.00

Animation Set-1,2 &3

CCS

Tutorial videotape.

118.00

Colour Cycling

CCS

Tutorial videotape

45.00

Digitising

CCS

Tutorial videotape.

45.00

Mavis Beacon Teaches
Typing

MSP

Lessons and games to teach typing.

69.95

Real 3D 1.4 Tutorial Tape

CCS

44.50

Video Graphics

CCS

Tutorial Video Tape.

45.00

UTILITY

3.5" Floppy Drive 720k Kit

CBM

165.00

Action Replay Mk IIA500

PAC

Machine code monitor, assembler and
disassembler, picture grabber, picture
modifier, memory grabber, program saver
and more.

249.00

Action Replay Mk IIA2000

PAC

Machine code monitor, assembler and
disassembler, picture grabber, picture

AMIGA ANNUAL 58

Product Guide

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Amiga Action Replay - screen capture hardware

modifier, memory grabber, program saver
and more.

269.00

Ami-Back 1.4

CMT

Hard disk backup utility. Will back-up and
restore hard drive quickly and conven¬
iently. Run on any Amiga running
AmigaDOS 1.3 or 2.0. NTSC/PAL com¬
patible.

Amiga Virus Protection
Toolbox

PAC

Includes Boot Check, Recover, Change
Control Checker, Check New. For all
Amigas with Workbench 1.2 and 1.3.

AmigaDOS Tool Box

PAC

A collection of essential, powerful, and
easy-to-use software tools for the user
who wants to overcome some of the
Amiga’s drawbacks.

99.00

AMOS Compiler

PAC

Turns your Amos source code into fast
machine code executable directly from
the CLI or Workbench without requiring
either the Amos libraries or Amos itself.

69.95

Art Department Professional
Conv. Pack

DTU

Upgrade from The Art Department to Art
Department Pro.

119.00

CAL Calender Maker

CMT

Create custom calendars. Print any size
from wallet to wall. Accepts fonts or uses
library provided. Set your own starting

dates, accepts information from applica¬
tions like NAG, plus via AREXX.

Canon BJ300/330 Printer
Driver

GPT

Works for all Canon BJ series from BJ10
through BJ330. Supports printer densi¬
ties u p to 360 by 360d pi. Compatible with
PageStreamand Professional Page. Spe¬
cial double density 360 x 360 mode for
desktop publishing.

50.00

Canon FP510 Printer Driver

GPT

Amiga printer driver for Canon FP510 full
colour ink-jet printer. Supports gamma
correction of printed image for computer
graphics, video capture and scanner in¬
put.

CAPE 68k Assembler

DTU

Version 2.5. Fast, fully, documented
Amiga assembler environment. Includes
linker, profiler and dis-assembler. Inte¬
grated editor. "Stop on error - and “as¬
semble from buffer - functions.

119.00

CrossDOS 4.0

CMT

MS-DOS filing system. Read, write, for¬
mat and copy MS-DOS or Atari disks with
standard Amiga drives. Transparently
access MS-DOS files from any applica¬
tion.

CrossDOS 5.0

DTU

MS-DOS filing system. Read, write, for¬
mat and copy MS-DOS or Atari disks with
standard Amiga drives. Transparently
access MS-DOS files from any applica¬
tion. Version 5.0 Plus due early 1992.

84.00

Disk Mechanic

CMT

Diskmaster II

CMT

Excellent utility for file manipulation. Sits
on own screen, two DIRs displayed,
COPY, RENAME files. Format or
DISKCOPY. View images, play sam¬
ples. Easy to use.

DOS 2 DOS

CMT

File transfer. Transfers all file types from
PC/MS-DOS to AmigaDOS and vice
versa Handles 31/2 and 51/4 ‘ formats.

Dunlap Utilities

CMT

Forty Workbench utility programs. Fix
hard drive errors, recover deleted files,
keyboard macros, file house- keeping
utilities.

FACCII

DTU

Roppy disk accelerator. Intelligent disk
caching for up to four floppy drives with
dynamic control over buffers. Add/re¬
move buffers at will via control panel or
CLI. Faster and better than AddBuffers.

45.00

HyperHelpers

DTU

On-line DOS help. DOSHelp online
AmigaDOS help (1.3 and 2.0). Run-N-
Play, the “I wish" file requestor which
runs programs, plays sounds etc.,
Launchpad, a small window on Work¬
bench with a menu to run packages.

79.00

Image Finder

CMT

Rnds graphic files by looking at thumb¬
nails of the images in full colour or gray
scale. Scans disk volume and/or directo¬
ries for ILBM or ANIM files to create
index. Browse through thumbnails be¬
fore or after sort.

Interface Design Kit

CMT

Mac 2 DOS

CMT

Requires external Mac drive. Enables
you to read and write Mac format disks.
Various translation of ASCII possible,
also transfers graphic files. Includes in¬
terface.

Power Windows

DTU

Create custom screens, multiple win¬
dows and more, then generate source
code for installation in original programs.

119.00

PRT24

GPT

Prints Amiga 24-bit IFF graphics on the

Canon FP510 full colour printer. Support
for 256,000 colours per image. Video,
scanner and computer generated image
gamma correction.

Quarterback

CMT

HD Utility. A fast backup-20MB in 30
minutes or less. Handles files of unlim¬
ited length, subdirectories, and files per
subdirectories. Select by file restoration.

Quarterback Tools

CMT

Maximizes the speed and reliability of
hard disks and floppy disks by re-posi-
tioning files to optimum locations on the
disk which eliminates file fragmentation
and consolidates disk free space.

RX Tools

CMT

Tools for AREXX. Implement extensions
for windows, gadgets, requesters and
more. Full AREXX editor included.

Superback

DFL

Hard drive backup utility. Selectively copy
any or all of the files and directories from
your hard disk, RAM or network device
onto floppy disk. Backs up 20 mega¬
bytes in 20 minutes. Restores data se¬
lectively.

99.95

TCP/IP Software

CBM

The Ambassador

DTU

Improves file transfer capability for both
Bridgeboard and Amiga, provides trans¬
parent access from Amiga to MSDOS
data as with CrossDOS, including
Bridgeboard connected drives.

99.00

TurboPrint Professional

GSO

Printer enhancement and control pro¬
gram. Gives vast improvements in print
quality with all Amiga programs. Superior
control over scale, size, colour and dith¬
ering patterns and smoothing. Can also
do colour separations.

140.00

X-Backup Professional

CMT

X-Copy Professional

CMT

Many new features; includes hard disk
and file backup. Copies protected disks.
Handles multiple drives. Verify option,
good error detection and audible notifica¬
tion of finished copies.

AMIGA ANNUAL 59

Product Guide

WORD

PROCESSING

BABY

CMT

1.4 million word Thesaurus. Spell check
documents from wordprocessors with no
spell check support.

Beckertext

PAC

Graphics and columns. Numerous styles
& fonts, auto wordwrap, auto page
numbering, auto hyphenation, auto table
of contents & index generation. Spell
check.

149.00

Cygnus Ed Professional

DTU

Fast and powerful text editor. For writer
or programmer. Macro facility. Arexx port
File recovery. Cut & paste vertical blocks
(columns). Autosave, printer function.
Version 2.12. Multiple undo/redo.

129.00

Electric Thesaurus

DFL

Contains over 500,000 synonyms and
offers concise definitions and includes
its part-of-speech and a list of accurate
synonyms in their properly inflected forms
Utilises Rogefs II Electronic Thesaurus
database.

69.95

Excellence! 2.0

CMT

250 available fonts, 90,000+ word dic¬
tionary, Index and Table of Contents
generator, Grammatical/Style checker,
Thesaurus, Headers, Footers/Footnotes
WYSIWYG and Postscript support.

Beet Check

CMT

Spell checker.

How

CMT

Databaseor outline processor. Ideaproc-
essor. Assists in creating sales reports,
school papers and novels, plan business
strategies and schedule appointments.

Row Lab Pack

CMT

KindWords

DFL

WYSIWYG wordprocessor that can print
both graphics and text, 90,000word spell¬
ing checker, selection of font sizes.

99.95

Pen Pal

DFL

Word processor, database, forms gen¬
erator. Supports 4096 colours output and
IFF pictures. Includes a 100,000 word
spelling dictionary, search/replace and
more.

229.95

Pretext

PAC

Includes background printing and 45,000
word spelling checker and mail merge.
Version 4.1 is much improved. Text based
- a fast, solid editor.

199.00

ProWrite French Dictionary

CMT

ProWrite Lab Pack

CMT

ProWrite ProScript

CMT

Translates files created wth ProWrite
into PostScript. Files can be printed on a
PostScript compatible printer or saved to

be printed later. Reduce or enlarge,
mailmerge and control gray shades for
graphics.

ProWrite V3.2

CMT

Generate proposals with charts, 95,000
word spelling checker, mailmerge, fast
graphics printing. WYSIWYG Full post¬
script support, import IFFgraphics. Work¬
bench 2.0 style interface, AREXX sup¬
port.

Quik-Write

CMT

Entry level wordprocessor. Advanced
mail merge, spell checker with a 50,000
word dictionary, macros, AREXX port
and automatically updates date and time
markers. Complete control over printing
and more.

Quik-Write Lab Pack

CMT

Scribble Platinum

ozi

WYSIWYG IFF graphic support.
104,000+word spelling checker, 470,000
thesaurus with definitions, multiple win¬
dows, cut and paste, mail merge.

239.95

Transwrite

DFL

Allows you to quickly generate and edit
lengthy or multiple documents. Built-in
90,000 word TransSpell spell-checker,
automatic index and mail merge, search
and replace, cut, copy, paste. Use with
Pro Page.

95.00

WordPerfect Library 2.0

SWA

Helps organise appointments, notes, files
and programs Includes Calendar, Note¬
book, Calculator, File Manager, Program
Editor.

199.00

WordPerfect V4.1 English

SWA

Very full-featured program with drivers
for almost any printer made. Ported from
IBM and Amiga-ised. Speller and the¬
saurus included. Available with British

dictionary. Book shelf style ring-bound
manual.

469.00

WordWorth

PAC

Workbench 2.0 look-alike interface, com¬
plete range of document processing func¬
tions. Features Human Interface Proto¬
col (HIP), 116,000 British spell checker,
supports PAL displays, multiple fonts,
graphic import

299.00

VIDEO

HARDWARE

Harlequin

CCS

RGB Genlock

1610.00

Minigen (PAL)Genlock

CMT

A500/A2000

Neriki CE100 PAL Colour
Encoder

FRD

Amiga to composite or Y-C

474.00

Neriki Composite Desktop
Genlock

FRD

1257.00

Neriki Dual Channel Pro Y-C
Genlock

FRD

Features automatic detection and switch¬
ing to dual cannel Y-C with full broadcast
quality. Will operate with any model
Amiga, self-powered from mains, simple
front panel controls, full baudwidth en¬
coding 600 line

1474.00

AMIGA ANNUAL 60

Product Guide

Neriki IBM Interface

FRD

Neriki Imagemaster Genlock

FRD

Options available including YUV

1700.00

Neriki PS100 Universal Power

Supply

FRD

Companion for the range of Neriki inter¬
face equipment.

84.00

Omni-Gen 702 PAL

CCS

Omni-Gen 712 Y-C/PAL

CCS

5315.00

Omni-Gen 722 Component

CCS

7215.00

PAL Genlock

CCS

859

Pal/Y-C to RGB Converter

CCS

RGB to PAL/Y-G/YUV/YRB
Transcoders

CCS

RocGen Genlock

MAT

299

RocGen Plus Genlock

MAT

399

Sirius Genlock

CCS

1999

Super VHS Adaptor Lead

ForVidi RGB Splitter.

VD2Q01 - F/Buff, F/Grab, GJ
Lock

CCS

3499.00

VD2020-F/Buff, F/Grab, G/
Lock

CCS

Release due in February 1992, TMS
34020 based board.

Video Blender

CMT

Features video switching, lumakeying,
gentocking, local coiour generation in 16
million colours, video fading/Wiping, and
stereo audio mising. External, self con¬
tained unit with power supply.

Video Converter

CCS

Convertsfrom Y-C and Compositto RGB
399.00

Vidi RGB Splitter

Companion to Vidi and VidiChrome. Al¬
lows you to digitize in full HAM colour
without using colour filters, k Grab a

colour image in under one second, fully
compatible with Digi-View.

299.00

VidTech VideoMaster

CCS

External SVHS and composite, PAL or
NTSC. Disolve control bars, Wipe
switches, RBG splitter for digitising. RGB
processor, transcoding, internal sync,
amiga RGB bypass, keyout.

2459.00

Y-C Genlock

CCS

1299.00

Y-C/RGB SplitterSplit Y-C video into R-
G-B for slow scan digitising.

CBM

579.00

Distributors Key

AVT

Avtek Modems

Unit A 25 Paul St North
North Ryde NSW 2113
Tel (02) 888 5333

CCS

Color Computer Systems

18 Appleby Street
Ba!cattaWA6021
Tel (09) 349 6492
Fax (09) 349 5155

CBM

Commodore Business
Machines

67 Mars Road

Lane Cove NSW 2066

Tel (02) 417 7066 Customer Service

Tel (02) 427 4888 General

CMR

Computer Magic

44 Pascoe Vale Road
Moonee Ponds VIC 3039
Tel (03) 326 0133

CMA

Computermate

9 HighStreet
MLKuringai NSW 2080
Tel (02) 457 8388

DFL

Dataflow

15 Merton Street
Zetland NSW 2017
Tel (02) 310 2020

P.0 Box 3052
Manuka ACT 2603
Tel (06) 239 6658
Fax (06) 239 6619

ECP

Electronic Arts

4/46 Smith Street
Southport QLD 4215
Tel (075) 911388
Fax (075) 916 068

FNH

Fonhof Computer Supplies

64 Cross Street
Bauikham Hills NSW 2153
Tel (02) 639 7718
Fax (02) 639 5995

FRD

Fordray

PO Box 1265
Orange NSW 2800
Tel (063) 629 901
Fax (063) 628 675

GSO

G-Soft

P.O.Box 59
EfizabethSA5114
Tel (08) 254 2261

GPT

GP Software

21 Aloomba Road
Ashgrove QLD 4060
Tel (07) 3661402

MAS

MAST

19-21 Buckland St
Broadway NSW 2007
Tel (02) 2817411

MAT

Matrix

Unit 1021 Chester Street
Camperdown NSW 2050
Tel (02) 550 4688
Fax (02) 550 4663

MMT

MegaMicro Technology

PO Box 511

Bond Junction NSW 2022
Tel (02) 980 6986
Fax (02) 3631246

5/6 Gladstone Rd
Castle Hill NSW 2154
Tel (02) 899 2277
Fax (02) 899 2348

MUL

Multicoln

Labrador

Gold Coast QLD 4215
Tel (075) 37 5711
Fax (075) 373 743

OPA

Opal Technology

PO Box 117
Castle Hill NSW 2154
Tel (02) 899 4322

029

Ozlsoft

Level 3

61A Dunning Ave
Rosebery NSW
Tel (02) 313 6444

PAC

Pactronlcs

98 Carnarvon Street
SOverwaterNSW
Tel (02) 748 4700
Fax (02) 748 4604

1st Floor

257 Hawthorn Road
Caulfield North VIC 3161
Tel (03) 532 8553
Fax (03) 532 8556:

SWA

Sourceware

Unit 1 6-8GeorgePlac
Artarmon NSW 2064
Tel (02) 427 7999

UNI

Unitech Electronics

86Tummel Place
St Andrews NSW 2566
Tel (02) 820 3555

AMIGA ANNUAL 61

Australian Commodore and Amiga User Groups

Around Australia many Amiga users have
joined together to form user associations, clubs
and groups. Following is a list of the active groups
from which we regularly receive correspondence.
These details may change from time to time -
check your local computer store for details or call
us (02 879 7455) to see if we have an update. User
groups offer many services in return for a small
annual membership fee. Many produce a bi¬

monthly newsletter with local news, product re¬
views and group activities listed. Some hold tuto¬
rials or workshops. Others run a bulletin board
system, magazine or software library or help lines
to more informed members. Many have vast col¬
lections of PD disks available at nominal rates to
members.

Of course, there are always a few bad eggs out
there, and it is known that a few user groups are

heavily involved with the exchange of commer¬
cial software. This practice is illegal. It amounts to
theft and is known as piracy - a nice word for a
pastime that could put a stop to the wonderful flow
of new products we see for the Amiga today. When
you join a user group, be responsible, don't get
involved with piracy. Federal authorities are crack¬
ing down on this area.

AC. T.

Canberra Amiga Users
Society Inc

PO Box 596

Canberra City ACT 2601
Director - Jonathan Bishop
Vice Director - Simon Tow
Secretary - Colin Ward
Treasurer - Trevor Raddatz
Meetings - 2nd Tuesday of
each month at the City RSL,
13B Moore St in the Anzac
Building. 7.30 pm. Details of
the date and expected topic to
be presented will be
advertised in the Public
Notices in the Canberra Times
on the first Saturday of each
month and in the Canberra
Times “Fridge Door” the week
of the meeting
BBS - Online 24hrs (06) 255
1469

Newsletter - BECAUSE

Canberra User Group
ACT Inc

PO Box 409
Curtin ACT 2005

N. S.W.

Albury Wodonga
Commodore Users
Group

PO Box 1014
Albury NSW 2640

Amiga Burwood User
Group

PO Box 308
Burwood NSW 2134
Tel: (02) 970 6025

Armidale Amiga User
Group

PO Box 375
Armidale NSW 2350
Secretary - Bob Estreich

Australian Amiga Users
Association

PO Box 389
Penrith NSW 2750
President - Gary Colligan (02)
627 1201,

SecretaryA/ice President -
Bob Bliss (02) 670 5659
AmiOz BBS (02) 627 4442
Online 24hrs 7 days
A SkyPix Graphic BBS

Coffs Harbour Amiga
Owners Society (CHAOS)

26 King St

Coffs Harbour NSW 2450
Contact - Mr. Moore, 3 Kotuku
St, Coffs Harbour (066) 511
376

Chris Wood 26 King Street,
Coffs Harbour (066) 523 680
Meetings - First Tuesday in
each month at 7.30 pm except
in school holidays at Toormina
High School, near Coffs
Harbour.

Commodore Hornsby
Users Group

PO Box 1578 Hornsby
Northgate NSW 2077
President - Alan Hall (02) 476
4929

Secretary - Robyn
Sparrowhawk (02) 871 3409
Meetings - fourth Wednesday
of each month (not
December), monthly
workshops second
Wednesday of each month
(not January)

Club BBS (02) 484 2874 24
hrs

Newsletter - Peripheral

Compu-Tech Computer
Club

15 Hazelton Grove
Gateshead NSW 2290

Cooma Amiga Users
Group

PO Box 409
Cooma NSW 2630

East Coast Amiga

PO Box 344

Gosford NSW 2250

Macquarie Fields User
Group

32 Rosewood Drive
Mcquarie Fields NSW 2564

Macquarie University
Commodore Amiga
Society (MUCAS)

President - Amos Bannister
Vice President - John Paul
Lonie

Secretary - Murray Gilbert
Official BBS - Plummet BBS
(02) 949 1224

Muswellbrook
Commodore Computer
Club

Chairman - G. Simpson (065)
425 560

Secretary - Jan Hickey (065)
433 740

Meetings - Upper Hunter
Citizens and Police Youth
Centre, Carl Street,
Muswellbrook NSW 2333 on
the second Saturday of each
month at 7.30 pm.

Newcastle Commodore
Users Group

4/13 Smart Street
Charlestown NSW 2290
President - George Morrison
(049) 57 4271

Secretary - Sue Slack (049)

47 1118 a.h.

Meetings - 7.00 p.m. 4th
Tuesday each month at
Charlestown Public Library,
Ridley Street, Charlestown,
Newcastle
Newsletter - VICTIM

Penrith Commodore User
Group

42 Alpine Circuit
St. Clair NSW 2759
Meetings - 3rd Wednesday of
each month at the Victoria
Street Community Cottage,
Victoria Street, Werrington
from 7.30p.m.

President - Gary Bull
Secretary - Elena Denton
Telephone - (02) 670 3207 or
(02) 623 4258 after 5p.m.

RAAF Richmond
Computer Club

C/- CTS, SSSRIC

RAAF Base Richmond NSW

2755

Singleton Amiga Users
Group

22 Falkiner Crescent
Singleton Heights NSW 2330
Chairman - Ken Gate
Treasurer - Peter Smith
Secretary - Bob Aitchison
Meetings - 2nd Wednesday
each month at 7pm in the staff
room of the Singleton Heights
Public School.

Southern Sydney
Commodore User Group

PO Box 375
Padstow NSW 2019
Telephone (02) 773 9666
Fax (02) 774 1165
Meetings - 8pm Scouts Hall,
Connelly Street, Penshurst
every two weeks on Monday
evening.

Sydcom

PO Box 1542
Sydney NSW 2001
Meetings - second Friday of
each month, Macquarie Boys
High School, James Ruse
Drive, Rydalmere at 7.30 p.m.

Tuggerah Lakes
Commodore Users
Group

PO Box 2257
Gosford NSW 2250

Wollongong Amiga User
Group

42 Heaslip Street
Conistion NSW 2500

N.T.

Amiga Users of the
Northern Territory
(AUNT)

PO Box 40401
Casuarina NT 0811
Meetings - 2nd Wednesday of
each mont at the Moil Primary
School staffroom from 7.30
pm.

QLD

Australian Amiga User
Group

PO Box 1386
Toowoomba QLD 4350
Telephone - (076) 932 198
Vice President
Meetings - 2nd Saturday of
each month
130 Members

Publication - Australian Amiga

Brisbane Amiga User
Group Inc

Lot 4 Lindsay Road
Morayfield QLD 4506
Secretary - Graham Bowden

Bundaberg Commodore
Comuputer User Group

PO Box 1713
Bundaberg QLD 4670
President - Jan Kretschmer
Vice President - Robert Cullen
Meetings - West State School
Library

General meetings start at
10.30 a.m. and Ordinary
meetings at 12.30 p.m., ring
Bundaberg 52 7098 for more
information.

Commodore Computer
Users Group Inc (CCUG
Inc)

PO Box 274

Springwood QLD 4127
Meetings - For information on
meetings ring (07) 288 8863
a.h.

AMIGA ANNUAL 62

Australian Commodore and Amiga User Groups

President - Greg Perry ph (07)
366 3295

Secretary - Mike Williams ph
(07) 209 9084
BBS - (07) 808 7694 & (07)
808 8823

Sysop - Graeme Darroch (07)
209 1999

BBS is part of Fido Network
(Node No 3:640/304) and can
be accessed by members at
300, 1200/75, 1200, 2400 bps
and 9600bps, using 8 data
bits, 1 stop bit and no parity.
Newsletter - Cursor

Commodore User Group
Mackay

PO Box 422
Mackay OLD 4740
Meetings - Every second
Wednesday night at Mackay &
District Education Centre,

North Mackay 7.30 p.m
Secretary - Trevor Johnston
(079) 59 8417

Commodore User Group
of Australia

PO Box 166
Pittsworth OLD 4350

Gladstone Amiga Users
Group

PO Box 1390
Gladstone OLD 4600

Ingham User Group

Chairman - Stephen
Colclough, 4 Philip Street,
Ingham OLD 4850 phone: 763
436

Librarian - Martin Lynch, 2
Borello Street, Ingham 762
243

Meetings - Every 2nd Sunday
afternoon at a location to be
advised in monthly newsletter
following the last meeting, at
2.00 pm to 5.00 pm.

Ipswich Commodore
User Group

PO Box 252
Ipswich OLD 4305

Northern Amiga User
Group

PO Box 1722
Mount Isa OLD 4825
President - Marc Katona
Vice President - Peter
Thomas

Meetings - second Sunday of
each month at 2.30 pm at
Norsoft in Hopkins Arcade,
West Street

Newsletter - Newsletter of the
Northern Amiga User Group.

Amiga User Group of SA

PO Box 10131
Adelaide SA 5001

Barossa Users Group

RSD Box 1 Daveyston
Greenock SA 5300

S.A.C.C.U.G.

PO Box 427
North Adelaide 5006
Meetings - 1st & 3rd Monday
of the month at 7.30 p.m. at
North Adelaide Primary
Schoool, Tynte Street, North
Adelaide (next to the North
Adelaide Fire Station). $1.00
per person for hall hire.
President - Glenn
Secretary - Laurie
Newsletter - Bits and Bytes

Southern Districts
Commodore Users
Group

1 Birubi VJay
MorphettVale SA 5162

Whyalla Commodore
User Group

PO Box 2367
Whyalla (Norrie) SA 5608

TAS

Burnie Commodore
Amiga Users Group

PO Box 471
Burnie TAS 7320
President - Clyde McLennen
Vice President - John West
Secretary - Wayne Marks
Meetings - Mooreville Road
campus of TAFE, 2nd
Tuesday each month escept
school holidays, workshops
and courses notified at meets
and in the newsletter.
Newsletter - B.C.A.U.G. News

Tasmanian Amiga Users
Group

6A Hamilton St
Launceston TAS 7250

Tasmanian Commodore
Users Association

PO Box 673
GPO Hobart TAS 7000
President - Kaz Paul
Vice President - David Sherrin
Club Secretary - Ken Silver
Meetings - Glenorchy Derwent
Regional Library Jerry Street,
Glenorchy, 7.30p.m.

Newsletter - Discourse

VK Commodore Users
Group

PO Box 168
Launceston TAS 7200

West Coast Commodore

Users Group

8 Hurst Street
Queenstown TAS 7467

VIC

Amiga Users Group (Vic)
Inc

PO Box 48
Boronia VIC 3155

Balaclava User Group

3/2 Almond Avenue
Brooklyn VIC 3025

Border District
Commodore User Group

PO Box 536
Wodonga VIC 3090

Compu-U-Pals

C/- M.D.A.

PO Box 29
Knoxfield Vic 3180
Organisation which helps
people who can’t get to User
Group meetings or might live
in areas where there is no
support for their computer, or
for other reasons would prefer
to contact other friendly Amiga
and C64 users by mail.
Newsletter - Disk-+-Link

Commodore User Group
(VIC) Inc

1 Argyle Street
Gladstone VIC 3140

CRI Commodore User
Group

President - Rod Mason (03)
306 4063

Membership Secretary - Steve
Riepsamen (03) 314 5677
Meetings - Every 3rd Sunday,
VRI Hall, Stewart St,
Braybrook, VIC (behind
Squash Courts), 7.30 p.m.

130 members

Dingly Commodore User
Group

1 Hazelwood Close
DingleyVIC 3172

Eastern Suburbs Eighty
Users Group

17 Douglas Avenue
Box Hill South VIC 3128

Knoxcom Incorporated

PO Box 2000
Ferntree Gully VIC 3156

Latrobe Valley Amiga
User Group

President - Peter Pildre (051)
27 6896

Secretary - Dave Andrews
(051) 34 8713

Meetings - last Friday of each
month at 7.30 pm at the

Traralgon Ambulance Office at
1 Campbell Street, Traralgon
VIC 3844.

Melbourne Commodore
Computer Club

PO Box 177
Box Hill VIC 3128

Moe Commodore Users
Group

20 Edward Crescent
Trafalgar VIC 3824

Shepparton Commodore
Computer Club

Meetings - Fortnightly on
Sunday night 7.30 - 9.00 p.m.
at the Guide Halle, Cnr of
Nixon & Skene Street,
Shepparton VIC 3430.
Secretary - Val Hutchinson.

Stawell Commodore User
Group

PO Box 299
Stawell VIC 3380

VRI Commodore User
Group

PO Box 253
Glenroy VIC 3040

Waverley Commodore
Users Group

1 Argyle Street
Chadstone Vic 3148
President - Geoff Travers

Wangaratta Amiga Group

PO Box 97

Wangaratta Vic 3677
President - Bruce Galloway
(057) 265 311

Secretary - Murray Foye (057)
214 310

Meetings - First Wednesday
of each month at Chisholm St.
Primary School, Wangaratta
at 7.30 p.m.

Newsletter - Chinwag

Yarra Valley Commodore
User Group

PO Box 170
Ulydale VIC 3140

Amiga Group Albany

26 Boronia Avenue
Albany WA 6330
Contact - Dave Clements
(098) 411 435
Meetings - every second
Monday.

Amiga Users Group of
WA (Inc)

PO Box 595
Cloverdale WA 6105

Meetings - Curtin University,
Bentley 7.30 p.m.

General Meeting - 2nd
Tuesday every month.
Tutorials - Every Friday
President - Bill Sharpe -Smith
(09) 362 3539
Secretary - Arthur Rutland
(09) 279 2778
Newsletter - AUGMENT

Commodore Computer
Club WA Inc

PO Box 146
Wiileton WA 6155

Commodore Computer
Users Group (Nth Subs)

234 Balcatta Road
Gwelup WA 6021
President - Adrian Liebregts
(09) 279 7383

Meetings - The Herb Graham
Centre, Mirrabooka, every
second and fourth Wednesday
7.30 pm to 9.30 pm.

Hedland Commodore
User Group

5a Baler Close

South Hedland WA 6722

Perth Commodore &
Amiga User Group

22 Marriot Way
ModeyWA 6062
Contact - John Roe (09) 276
6287

Meetings - Every Thursday
night at 7pm - 9.30 p.m. at the
Les Hansman Centre, 246
Walter Road, Morley (opp
Coventrys).

Postal and Repair
Service Centre

22 Marriot Way
Modey WA 6062
(09) 276 6287

NewZealand

Amiga User Group of
New Zealand

PO Box 35107
Christchurch NZ

Christchurch
Commodore User Group

PO Box 4665
Christchurch NZ NZ0

New Zealand Amiga User
Group

PO Box 85094
Sunnynook
Auckland NZ NZ10

NZ Micro Computer Club

PO Box 6210
Auckland NZ

AMIGA ANNUAL 63

Public Domain Software

Public Domain

oftware

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T here are three main ways that soft¬
ware is released and distributed.
One is naturally the commercial
market where you go down to a store,
hand over a fair bit of your hard earned
green stuff and get a pretty box with a disk
and manual within it.

Public domain software works in a dif¬
ferent way. The biggest difference is that
it’s FREE! Something for nothing these
days? Yes, it’s true. We have hundreds,
maybe even thousands of Amiga enthusi¬
asts that are programmers, who write soft¬
ware for the Amiga and release this soft¬
ware for others enjoyment through the
many public domain libraries like Prime
Artifax or Megadisc. The software may be
copied and swapped quite legally and
usually, the authors ask nothing in return
for their work and regularly update the
software as bugs are reported to them.

The third type of software release is
like public domain though with a slight
difference. It’s called Shareware. Like
public domain, shareware software is also
released free and is freely redistributable.
However with Shareware software, there

Andrew Leniart takes us
on a guided tour of the
world of public domain
software.

are usually some (quite reasonable) con¬
ditions attached.

Most Shareware authors are highly
talented programmers and the software
they release is often of very high quality
indeed. As a matter of fact, quite often,
you will find shareware software which is
even better than its commercial equiva¬
lent.

The conditions that shareware authors
usually attach to the use of their software
is that once you have tried their product
and decide that you like it and wish to
continue using it, you pay for it by sending
them a donation to help with future devel¬
opment of the software. The suggested
donation or registration fee of shareware
software is usually very reasonable in¬
deed and often includes being sent the
latest version of the product you have paid
for.

Note that you are not forced to register
shareware software. However if you don’t
wish to pay for the product, then you are
under a moral obligation to cease using it
and delete it from your collection. Please
try to support the shareware concept and

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do the right thing by encouraging these
people to continue developing their soft¬
ware by buying it.

Where do you get it?

There are dozens of public domain
libraries around and all you need to do to
find them is check a couple of Australian
Amiga magazines. There are always some
advertised in each issue of The Australian
Commodore and Amiga Review so check
there. There are probably a few adver¬
tised in this Annual as well so flip around
the pages and look here.

It pays to shop around though. Some
public domain outlets charge unreason¬
able prices for public domain disks. As a
rule of thumb guide, if you approach a
public domain supplierthat wants to charge
more than about $8 maximum for a public
domain disk (disk and postage included)
then look elsewhere.

It pays to watch out for the opposite
extreme too! Companies who sell public
domain software at little more than the
cost of a disk probably provide very poor
service, are reluctant to exchange faulty
disks and give little or no telephone sup¬
port if you're having trouble.

Generally, you get what you pay for -
but remember, the software is free, so no
one is obliged to help you make it work.
What you’re paying for is the service of
handling your order, duplicating and post¬
ing you the disk and in some cases, hand¬
holding down the track if there’s a problem
of some sort.

There are many different types of pub¬
lic domain collections around. Probably
the most popular and extensive collection
is compiled by a chap name Fred Fish in
America. Fred’s AmigaLibDisk compila¬
tions are easily identifiable by the fish
shaped disk icon on his disks that travel
the whole globe and are stocked by every
public domain outlet I’ve heard of. Fish
disks have been around since the Amiga
was born and at the time of writing, there
have been well over 590 disks cram packed
full of software (both public domain and
Shareware) released. 99% of them are
accompanied by full documentation on
how to use the software and are fully
iconised so to speak, so that the contents
may be easily viewed by via Workbench.

Check the public domain scene out. I
guarantee you won’t look back. □

AMIGA ANNUAL Sk

Fish Disk List

Disks 400 - 550

Public Domain Software

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DriveWars - Shareware shoot’em up game that
pits you, dfO: or dflagainst a computer virus that
is about to destroy all U.S. records of Iraq’s posi¬
tions during operation Desert Shield. In vl.O, you
must fly dfO: through the computers and destroy all
contaminated chips and disks.

ParNet • The Software Distillery’s NET: file
system using Matt Dillon’s parallel port code. Using
a special DB25 cable, two Amigas can be con¬
nected via the parallel port One Amiga can mount
the other as a device and read/write the files as if
they were local.

ReqLib - Runtime, re-entrant library designed to
make it easier for programmers to use powerful,
easy to use requesters, for communicating with
users. Includes such functions as a color requester,
file requester, message display requester and
many functions to make the creation of gadgets for
your own custom requesters easier.

SetCPU - Designed to allow the user to detect
and modify various parameters related to 32 bit
CPUs. Includes commands to enable or disable the
text/data caches, switch on or off the ‘030 burst
cache line fill request, use the MMU to run a ROM
image from 32-bit memory, and to report various
parameters when called from a script, vl.60, an
update to vl.5 on disk 223.

SF2 - File search utility. Default searching starts
from the root directory of the specified device.
Searching includes looking into archive files gener¬
ated by various compression utilities. Archive files
ending with a .ARC, .LHZ, .ZIP and .ZOO are
supported. Requires ARP 1.3 (rev. 39.1).

dim 4 .0.1

CrcUsts - Complete CRC check files for disks
001-400 using the brik program.

HappySong • A song created using the freely
distributable program MED V.2.10. Player pro¬
gram included.

DIM M2

ADoc - A freely re-distributable help utility.
Permanent help on any subject. Major feature is
automatic searching of the word on which you
clicked. Includes a 50 Kb help file (French only) on
all Intuition and Dos function calls.

APrf - Print utility. Intuition interface, preview
function, page selection, margins setup, line num¬
bering, etc.

Pcopy • An intuition based disk copier. Features
high speed diskcopy with write verify, data recoveiy
from damaged tracks, full multitasking compatibil¬
ity, etc.

PLW - Phone Line Watcher. For users of Hayes
compatible modems. Monitors the serial port and
records all incoming calls. Allows a remote user to
login, receive and leave a message, and transfer
files via Z-Modem in either direction. Two level
DOS access, disabled DOS requestors and more.
New features include the ability to define external
programs as menu options that can be executed by
the remote user.

PrlntStudio - Very nice intuition based general
purpose print utility. Prints several graphic formats
with options. Print any part of a picture, print
screens and windows, save screens and windows
as IFF files, modify color palettes, etc.

StdFile - Module that can be linked with any
Intuition based program to provide a standard file
requestor similar to the one in AmigaDOS 2.0.

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FixDisk - Recover as much as possible from
defective disks. It can sometimes recover unread¬
able tracks, check file integrity, check directory
structure, undelete files, copy or show files, etc.

Intuition interface.

KawaiEditor - A Kawai K4 sound module voice
editor.

NfftyTerm - NiftyTerm is an h19/VT102/VT52
emulator. Originally designed for DNet, has been
expanded for use as a normal terminal emulator.

PokerDemo - Demo of some Solitaire card
games. Includes ‘Accordion’, ‘Calculation’, 'Poker
Solitaire’, and ‘SeaHaven Towers’.

RexxHostUb - This is a shared library package
to simplify the ARexx host creation/management
procedure. Rexx-message parsing is also included
making it possible to control ARexx from programs
such as AmigaBASIC.

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LHArc - Archive program.

NGTC - Release One of a trivia game based on
‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ TV series. This
disk contains the game module and part 1 of the
Trivia Database. You MUST have disk 405 which
contains the rest of the Trivia Database and the
required player program.

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GIFMachine - Converts CompuServe GIF im¬
age files into IFF SHAM and 24-bit ILBMs. It offers
a number of extra options like dithering, horizontal
and vertical flip, as well as automatic border re¬
moval. Requires KickStart v2.0 or greater.

NGTC • Release One of a trivia game based on
'Star Trek: The Next Generation' TV series. Con¬
tains over 500 questions on Season One of the
series with over 50 audio/video clues. This disk
contains part 2 of the Trivia Database and the
'Projector' player. You MUST have disk 404 which
contains the rest of the Trivia Database and the
game module. Created with The Director 1 . Binary
only.

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ATCopy - Copies files from Amiga side of a
system equipped with a PC/AT bridgeboard, to the
PC side, using wildcards. Supports CU and WB.

DirWork • Directory utility. User-configurable.

DMS - DISK-Masher - compress entire floppy
disks. Extended virus checking, data encryption,
etc.

GnuAwk - GNU awk is the GNU Project’s imple¬
mentation of the AWK programming language. It
conforms to the definition and description of the
language in The AWK Programming Language, by
Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the addi¬
tional features defined in the System V, Release 4v
of UNIX awk.

GnuGrep - The grep program from the GNU
project. Replaces grep fgrep, egrep, and bmgrep.
This is an update fo vl.5 on disk 295 and now
handles AmigaDOS style wildcard specifications.

MadBlanker - Screen blanker - bounces a trans¬
parent rectangle around the screen.

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DMouse - Screen & mouse blanker, auto win¬
dow activator, mouse accelerator, popCU, pop
window to front, push window to back.

Flex • Replacement for UNIX ‘lex’ (lexical
analyzer generator) program - faster than lex. v2.3,
an update to disk 156.

WonderSound - Additive harmonic instrument
design tool with a separate envelope design win¬
dow and 16 relative harmonic strength and phase
angle controls.

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DCmd - Monitors a CU’s console 10 and copies
it to a user specified file.

KlckDate - Saves and retrieves the current sys¬
tem date stamp to the first sector of the kickstart
disk. This is handy for A1000 users with autobooting
hard drives, since it can save the system time
across system resets and power cycles.

MonIDie • Screen hack. Scary! Be sure to turn
up the sound. Binary only • source available.

Post • PostScript interpreter which supports the
full Adobe language and type 1 PostScript fonts.
Includes: Charter font in Roman, Italic, Bold, and
Bold-Italic, and Courier font in Roman, Roman-
Oblique, Bold, and Bold-Oblique.

DISK 409

Trek - Star Trek game. The object of the game
is to stay alive, healthy, and maintain the Enterprise
in good condition. As Captain of the ship, you must
go on missions where you show your common
sense and level headedness.

DISK 410

MechFight - A role playing game where you
explore a world, buy or find items, and fight against
robots and aliens.

Vlt - VLT is both a VT100 emulator and a
Tektronix (4014 plus subset of 4105) emulator,
currently in use at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelera¬
tor Center). Although the VT100 part was originally
based on Dave Wecker et al.’s VT100, many en¬
hancements were made. Features include use of
ARP, an ARexx port, X-Modem 1K/CRC and Kermit
protocols, support for additional serial ports, exter¬
nal file transfer protocols (XPR), a ‘chat* mode, and
scrollback /review/history buffer. It comes in 2
versions, one with Tektronix emulation. The
Tektronix emulation allows saving IFF files,
PostScript files, and bitmap printing.

PI M 411

BPDI • Demo of a new strategy game written in
GFA-BASIC. German version only.

DiskPrint • Prints labels for 3.5 1 disks, primarily
for PD library disks. Label data files can be loaded
into memory so labels for special disks are avail¬
able without having to type anything or wait for
AmigaDOS to read in the full directory.

Mind - A design for Artificial Intelligence based
upon linguistics, includes five documents describ¬
ing the theory behind the animation.

PCStatus - Bridgeboard user’s program that
displays the status of the CAPS, NUM, INS, and
SCROLL key in a separate window on every PC
screen. Also, both the Amiga and the PC will use
the same status of the Caps Lock key.

Tron - Another game about the lightcyde race
sequence in the science fiction computer film‘Tron’.
One or two players.

P IM4 1Z

AutoAddRAM - Add several non-autoconfig
memory boards at once, optionally specifying prior¬
ity and memory chunk name.

Check4Mem - Check from a batch file for a
specified amount of memory with certain attributes.
If the requirements are not met, a WARN return
code is generated. This Is v3, an update to disk
242.

CopperBars - Simple demo of some rolling
copper bars.

CopperMaster - Create custom copper lists for
the WB screen.

CustReq • A glorified ASK command for your
startup-sequence. It generates a requester with the
specified text, positive and negative gadgets (either
of which can be the default), and an optional
timeout value.

DlrectoryOpus - Demonstration of a powerful
commercial directory utility. Very user friendly and
configurable.

FACIock - Front Analog Clock. Always stays at
the very front of the display.

FullView - A text viewer that uses gadgets at the
bottom of the screen (thus can display text 80
columns wide), opens up to the full height of WB
screen, has fast scrolling, and can work with files
compressed by PowerPacker. Shows IFF pictures.

Image-Ed - An icon editor. Draw and edit images
up to 150 by 90, in up to 16 colors. Allows freehand
drawing, empty or filled rectangles, different shapes,
copy, flip about x or y axis, stretching and condens¬
ing, flood fill and complement, text with selection
and loading of font style, undo, magnified and
normal sized images and two active drawing screens
at once.

JoyMouse - Use a joystick as a mouse. Binary
only.

JPDirUtil - A directory utility with many built-in
commands, and 16 customisable gadgets. User
configurable. Can be iconified to WB screen.

NoReq - Program that alternately turns on and
off the DOS requesters. Useful for bulletin boards

or other systems that may be unattended for long
periods of time.

OSK • A software keyboard, which allows you to
type using the mouse. Can be made to send key¬
strokes to any window, and can be iconified. This
Is vl 2, an update to disk 287.

Poptnfo - A small utility which ‘pops open’ to
give you information about the status of your de¬
vices and memory. This Is v4.0, an update to v3.0
on disk 242.

SuperPlay - A versatile sound playing utility,
that will play any file, with user definable volume
and speed.

SwapName • A variant on the ‘rename’ com¬
mand that instead swaps the names of two files.
Binary only.

TtcTacToe - Game. Binary only.

ZeroVirus - A fully integrated virus checker and
killer, with bootblock save and restore features.
Uses Brainfiles to recognise viruses, and has ‘on¬
line’ Brainfile editing facilities. Can be iconified to
WB screen.

DISK 413

Aerotoons - Animations with anthropomorphed
aircraft as the center of their humour. Includes
'Swiss Army F-16 In Combat' and 'Stealthy
Manuever II'.

Juggette - Some cute 'juggler 1 animations from
Eric Schwartz. Includes 'Juggette Anim',
'Juggette_2\ and 'Juggler Demo 2'.

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Anims - Some more cute animations from Eric
Schwartz. Includes 'Batman', 'LateNighf, and Ter¬
minal'.

Din • Library. Share image and text objects
between programs. The dinJibrary is ideal if you
want to write an editor and a DTP program that can
share text, or a drawing program and a DTP pro¬
gram that can share a brush. Requires AmigaDOS
2 . 0 .

Ula - Print text files on Postscript printers, with
header, page numbers, and multi-column pages.
Can print portrait or landscape. This Is v9004b, an
update to v8912a on disk 368, binary only.

PPAnlm - An anim player for normal IFF ANIM
opt 5 (DPaint III) files or ANIM files crunched with
PowerPacker. The de-crunching is done automati¬
cally as the file is read. Features many command
line options, palette change during animation, full
overscan PAL/NTSC support and yet it is only 7K.
Compatible with AmigaDOS 2.0. Some new 2.0
features (ASL requester) supported.

PPUb - A shared library to make life easy for
people who wish to write programs that support
PowerPacker. Loading crunched files from C or
assembly is made fast, short and easy.

Wrap • Wraps a Sculpt-Animate 4D image around
a sphere or cylinder. You can even use reliefed
surfaces to construct planetary objects or other
textured shapes.

P I M 41 5.

CBBSA - WORU-like BBS system for use in
amateur radio. This Is v6.71a, an update to v6.1e
on disk 241. Binary only, source available.

FlleTypes - This program can recognise differ¬
ent kinds of files in a directory. Currently recog¬
nised types are executable and IFF (all types,
ILBM, 8SVX etc.). Includes listing the whole con¬
tents of a directory or only files of one or more types.
This Is v2.1, includes assembly source.

Uedlt - A nice shareware editor with learn mode,
a command language, menu customisation,
hypertext, online help, teach mode, split windows,
copy and paste, undo, and other user features. This
Is v2.6c, an update to v2.5d on disk287. Binary
only.

pi Mm

Budget- Helps with managing personal finances.
V1.301, binary only.

Clock - Two programs to put clocks on the WB
screen. The executables are small and take little
processor time (1.5%) to run. vl.4. Both programs
require ARP. Source in C is included.

Intoxicated - A nice little screen hack which
affects the mouse. Includes source.

Quantizer - FLCLQ color quantizer which con¬
verts 24 bit true color images into 256, or less, color
images. Uses a sophisticated algorithm, mixing
median-cut, popularity, and a custom algorithm.
Includes a version for Amiga’s with a math
coprocessor. vl.O, shareware, binary only.

SoundEditor - An 8SVX stereo sound file editor
written in assembler. This Is v.98, an update to
v.80 on disk 355. New features include a working
digitiser, raw loads, raw mac loads, time markers,
rate converters, delay, ramp, filters, scroll. Binary
only.

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Fish Disks 400 - 550

Utils • A group of small utility programs requiring
ARP. ‘Du’ displays the disk space used by a direc¬
tory, ‘Head’ displays the first lines of a file and
‘Cookie’ displays a humorous message. Assembly
source is included.

WTF - (Window To Front) is a little hack which
brings a window to the front when double-clicked.
Includes source.

P1SKJJ1

Alert - Program to create custom alert boxes and
stand-alone programs to display them. Each alert
can be up to 7 lines of up to 77 characters per line.
v3.6, shareware, binary only.

Coyote - Another cute animation from Eric
Schwartz. This one is 'Coyote 2: The Road Test 1 ,
Eric’s tribute to Chuck Jones.

DataEasy - A database program which includes
a phone dialer, speech output, a simple screen
editor for making and modifying the database defi¬
nitions, a screen print function, form letter printing,
sorting, searching, andtwo sample databases. VI. 1,
binary only, source available from author.

MemLook • Gives a graphical view of the memory
area. Features memory gauge and controllable
scrolling speed. v2.0, an update to vl. IB on disk
364. Includes source in assembly.

MostCurrent • 2 programs that are to be used
with B. Lennart Olsson’s Aquarium program. The
first program creates a new button called 'Most
Current'. The second program updates the index
file so that the 'Most Current 1 button is set for all
entries that are the most current versions of their
set. VI.0, Includes source in C.

Quiz - Quiz game. Subjects include 'Bible',
'Indians', ‘Physics', and 'States'. Binary only.

WBGauge - Patches AmigaOOS 2.0 to bring
back the little gauge in the left border of disk
windows, shows available space on disk. V1.0,
binary only.

Whatls - Recognises a wide variety of file types
(executables, IFF, icons, zoo files, etc), and prints
interesting information about the structure or con¬
tents of the recognised file types, such as what
libraries, devices, resources, fonts, etc. a program
uses. This is v2.0, an update to v1J2a on disk
334, and is for AmigaDOS 2.0 only. Binary only.

DISK 418

AtMovies - Animation starring cartoon creation
'Amy the Squirrel'.

BootCACHE - Turns off the 68020/68030 in¬
struction and data caches upon rebooting. This
improves chances of older programs working on
Amigas with co-processors. vl.O, includes source
in assembly.

UP - Print text files on an HP LaserJet. Sup¬
ports landscape or portrait modes, use of any built-
in font, automatic downloading of soft fonts, fast
printing, one or two logical pages on a single paper,
multiple styles of page headers, adjustable page
length and width, user specified pitch and point of
a font, selectable margins and tab spacing, multiple
copies, optional line numbers and more. vl.OI,
binary only.

ModulaDefs - Implementation and definition
modules for the Amiga’s Graphics, Intuition, and
Math libraries, to be used with the Modula - 2
compiler from disk 24. Includes a source example of
using the modules. Binary only for the rest of the
distribution.

PSX • A public screen manager for AmigaDOS
2.0. Lets you open, manipulate, and close public
screens, set the global public screen bits, and
provides a good example of using GadTools and
ReadArgs. Includes source.

PubScreens - Two utilities to manipulate public
screens. You can open and close them, or ask for
information. Publics is the WB version of
PubScreens. AmigaDOS 2.0 only. This is vl.O,
binary only.

Running - Classic maze and puzzle game. You
run around ip a maze and try to catch the ghosts or
spiders. It is completely multitasking friendly and
compatible with AmigaDOS 1.2/1.3 and 2.0. De¬
sign your own levels. Binary only.

ScreenX - Designed to make getting at screens
easier. You can pop them to the front, push them to
the back, save the screen to an IFF file, print etc.
This Is v3.0, an update to v2.1 on disk 158.
Binary only.

DISK 419

ParM - Parameterable Menu. Build menus to run
whatever program you have on a disk. Works in WB
or CLI mode. Can have ifs own window or can
attach menus to the CU window you are running it
from. This is v2.5r, an update to vl.1 on disk
375. Includes source.

ReqAztec - Enhanced version of the interface to
req.library for Aztec C 5.0. Includes source in

assembly.

ReqLib - A runtime, re-entrant library designed
to make it easier for programmers to use powerful,
easy to use requesters, for communicating with
users. Includes a color requester, file requester,
message display requester and functions to make
the creation of gadgets for your own custom re¬
questers easier. v2.5, an update to vl.2 on disk
400. Binary only.

SetColors - Palette replacement program. Save
and load color files, update preferences. Includes
source in C.

Yacc - Port of Berkeley Yacc. This Yacc has
been made as compatible as possible with the
AT&T Yacc, and is completely public domain. Note
that it is NOT the so-called Decus Yacc, which is I
was simply a repackaging of the proprietary AT&T
Yacc. Update to disk 299. Includes source.

DISK 420

BootX • Virus killer. BootX can check the
bootblock of a disk, check memory for any resident
viruses, and scan a disk for link viruses. It can load
bootblock libraries for you to write on your disks.
Loads brain files so you can add any new bootblocks
that BootX does not yet recognise. Written in as¬
sembly. V3.40, binary only.

lff2Src • Converts IFF pictures or brushes to
source (C or assembly). The bitplanes, mask,
colormap and image are written to a file. You can
convert multiple files at once. Supports new 2.0
Applcon windows (like IconEd). AmigaDOS 2.0
only. vl.O, binary only.

MenuWriter -Write a menu to the bootblock of a
disk. Allows up to 30 entries of 39 characters long,
with commands up to 31 characters long. The
loader also allows batch files to be executed.
Includes a built in virus detector. v3.1, binary only.

QuickHelp - With the QuickHelp utilities you can
make your own help files like “man’’ in UNIX.
AmigaDOS 2.0 only. v2.0, binary only.

ShowGadgets - Lets you view all gadgets in a
window. Includes source.

SpaceWar - Two player game with each player
controlling a spaceship. The object is to shoot the
other player, gaining one point for each kill. The
game ends when a player reaches fifty points.
vl.11, binary only.

Syslnfo • Gives information about the machines
configuration. Including some speed comparisons
with other configurations, versions of the DOS
software, etc. vl.94, an update to vl.4 on disk
368. binary only.

TTDDD • Textual TDDD is an ASCII version of
Turbo Silver’s TDDD object and cell description
files. The TTDDD format enables users to
algorithmically generate objects, scenes, and
animations. Includes programs to convert between
TDDD and TTDDD formats. vl.O, shareware, bi¬
nary only.

WinMan - Utility to manipulate windows. Adds
menus to WB to shrink, maximise, tile or cascade
windows. AmigaDOS 2.0 only. vl.O, Includes
source.

DISKML

DMouse - A versatile screen & mouse blanker,
auto window activator, mouse accelerator, popCU,
pop windowto front, push windowto back, etc.vf .25,
an update to vl.24 on disk 407. Includes source.

EZAsm - Combines parts of the 'C' language
with 68000 assembly, giving it the feel of a higher
level language. Supports all 1.3 functions. Uses
braces and 'else' like 'C'. Resulting code is optimised
as much as possible. Takes source file you create
and outputs a .asm file. Includes example source
and executable files, vl.3, binary only.

NoVirus - Anti-Virus utility. Features known and
new virus detection, view boot blocks, save and
restore bootblocks, several ‘Install’ options and
more. Written in assembly. This is v3.31, an
update to vl.56 on disk 180, limited demo of
commercial version. Binary only.

Zon - An arcade/adventure game that mixes a
unique blend of puzzle solving and arcade adven¬
ture. Has 19 levels, save/restore your game on any
level, digitised soundtracks & sound effects, over
100 objects to discover and explore, up to 300
moving objects on the screen at once, vl,
shareware, binary only.

DISK 422

Gravity - Program which simulates the move¬
ments of astronomical objects under the influence
of gravity. vl.O, binary only.

Imploder - Reduce the size of executable files
while letting them retain full functionality. Uses
efficient algorithms as well as taking into full con¬
sideration the complexity of the Amiga environ¬
ment. v3.1,blnary only.

PopUpMenu • Program to use pop-up menus

with any program that uses standard intuition menus.
v3.5, Includes source.

SystemTracer - A tool to view and manipulate
various AmigaDOS 1.2 and 1.3 system structures.
vl.O, includes source.

TrackDOS - Program for easy transfer of data
between DOS, memory andtrackdisk.device. DOS
means the data contained within a file, memory
means the data contained anywhere within the
memory map and trackdisk.device means data
stored on a disk not accessable with DOS (eg.
bootblocks, special loader, disks, etc.), vl.04, an
update to disk 365. Binary only.

TrekTrivia - Mouse-driven trivia type program
for Star Trek fans. Contains 100 questions with
additional trivia disks available from the author.
This is v3.0, an update to v2.0 on disk 252.
Binary only, shareware.

DISK 423

Hollywood - Trivia game with such subjects as
M*A*S*H, Star Trek (old and TNG), Indiana Jones
and more. Each topic contains 50 questions and a
related picture. Shareware, binary only.

LCDCalc - 4 function (with memory) calculator.
Written in J-Forth. vl.023, binary only.

Pogo - Animation. Pogo and crew try to hold a
conversation with Miss Mam’a’selle.

SetRamsey - Program to test the current set¬
tings of the RAMSEY ram controller chip on an
Amiga 3000 under Kickstart 1.3 or 2.0 and change
them if you wish. Useful for hardware debugging to
control static column mode, burst mode, or chang¬
ing the refresh rate, vl.02, binary only.

DISK 424

AutoCU - 'PopCU' type replacement that works
with WB 2.0. Fixes the problem with PopCU crash¬
ing the machine if used on a PAL Amiga to open a
CU window with a vertical size greater than 200
lines. Other features include an optional Function-
key press with the qualifier to execute an S:script
file, vl.88, and update to vl.6 on disk 399, with
more enhancements. Binary only.

MED • Music editor like SoundTracker. A song
consists of up to 50 blocks of music, which can be
played in any order. Editing features include cut I
paste/copy tracks or blocks, changing the vibrato,
tempo, crescendo, and volume. This is v2.13, an
update to v2.00 on disk 349. Binary only.

TurboTItle - Program created for the purpose of
subtitling Japanese Animation films and to create a
standard Amiga subtitle format. Suitable for subti¬
tling any foreign film. v0.71, shareware, binary
only.

DLSK425

A-Gene - Demo of shareware genealogy data¬
base program. PAL version has been distributed in
Australia and England for some time. This NTSC
demo version is complete except that it is limited to
600 persons / 300 marriages, does not support a
text-editor to add free-form reports to records and
does not show Digi-view pictures from within the
program. The color requester is not included as this
entails adding a library file to libs: and is not really
needed. Needs 1Mb. v3.10, binary only.

CheckBook - Checkbook recording program
intended to be used as a companion to a checkbook
register. Offers a simple way of balancing
checkbooks, tracking bank transactions, and re¬
cording budgeted transactions. v0.9, binary only.

Downhill - Skiing arcade game. Ski Skylar
mountain, a dangerous, steep, downright scary
mountain with bonus flags to pick up, rocks, bushes,
and branches to jump over, all while avoiding
obstacles such as trees. Binary only, joystick re¬
quired, only works under AmigaDOS 1.3.

HeadGames - A 'Shoot-Em-Up' game done with
SEUCKgame constructor, featuring digitised heads
as enemies. Binary only.

DISK 426

Conman - Replacement for standard console
handler, provides line editing and command line
histories. Transparent to any application program
that uses CON: windows. Shareware. v1.3e, an
update to vl.3 on disk 165. Changes include
updates for WB 2.0 console refresh and cut/paste,
and improvements to window resizing. Binary only.

Metro • You play the role of a city planner. Using
limited funds, you must construct a mass-transit
subway system capable of meeting the needs of
your city. Build wisely and your system will be a
success, but poor planning will lead to disaster and
financial ruin. Shareware, binary only, source avail¬
able from author.

RickParksArt - Artwork from a leading Amiga
artists. Includes 'Bryce', 'Clipper 1 , 'Einstein', 'Fal¬
coner*, 'Lincoln' and more.

DISK 427

Blackjack - Blackjack simulation with ability to
simulate most casino blackjack games. Allows the
use of the most popular playing strategies and
modifications to them. Has color coded strategy
tables to enhance the learning of the strategy. 1 to
7 players, online help, demo mode, vl.01,
shareware, binary only.

Chemesthetics • Program that draws molecules
using the calotte model (atoms are drawn as bowls).
Has a fully intuitionised user interface, pictures can
be saved as IFF files. V2.00, includes source.

Cyrillic - Russian 12-point font.

STV - Text viewer with mouse and keyboard
scrolling, text search. vl.OOa, includes full C
source.

DISK 428

BCBMusic - 3 songs composed using MED
v2.10. Doesn't require separate player program as
it is compiled with the song. WB2.0 compatible.
Binary only.

CryoUtlls - 4 handy animation utilities. Includes
an animation creation tool that allows you to com¬
bine selected pictures into a standard animation, an
animation information tool that is used to extract
certain information from a given animation, an
animation combining tool that allows you to join two
animations into a larger one, and an animation
splitting tool to split one animation into two smaller
ones. Binary only.

ShadowMaker • Demo of an Intuition based
Font shadow generator. Converts fonts into color
fonts with shadows built in. Missing characters *w’,
‘x’, ‘y’, and ‘z\ Binary only.

Train - Electric train construction set. Shareware,
binary only, source available.

WonderSound - Additive harmonic instrument
design tool with a separate envelope design win¬
dow and 16 relative harmonic strength and phase
angle controls, vl.6, an update to vl.4 on disk
407. Binary only.

DISK 429

ATCopy - Program to copy files from the Amiga
side of a system equipped with a PC/AT bridgeboard,
to the PC side, using wildcards. Supports CU and
WB usage. This Is v2.1, an update to v2.0 on disk
406. Shareware, binary only.

CUmax - Command like NewCU or NewShell
except that it creates a borderless CLI or Shell
window on a custom screen. Requires ConMan 1.3
or newer. v3.0, Improved over the first release
on disk 224. Includes source.

Dr • Alternative CU directory lister command.
Features extreme optimisation for speed, a variety
of output formats, hiding of .info files by default, and
AmigaDOS pattern matching. It is pure
(residentable). Includes additional utilities ForEvery
and Whichever, vl.2, includes source.

FixCU - Pure command which fixes problems
with CU’s not created by other CU processes. A
new CLI or Shell created by such programs as
PopCU or DMouse gets no path and no current
directory. Gives a path to a CU that does not have
one and sets the current directory as specified if
none is already set. Place in S:Shell-Startup script.
Includes source.

MoveSYS - Reassigns SYS:, C:, S:, L, UBS:,
DEVS:, and FONTS: to a new disk or directory in
one step. From CU or WB. Just dick it and shift-
double-click a disk or drawer icon. Small and pure.
2nd release (the one on disk 224 worked from
CU only). Includes source.

RunBack • For starting a CU process in the
background, without preventing the CU window
from dosing. Pure and only 468 bytes long. Re¬
quires the NULL device, which is induded. Using
NULL makes it more flexible and robust than older
RunBacks. Includes source in assembly.

Scrub - Disk drive cleaning program which auto¬
matically detects which drive has the cleaning disk.
Pure. Includes source.

Timer • The timer device made easy! Example of
how to create both synchronous and asynchronous
waits. Includes a sample C program, a detailed
technical discussion, and modules that you can
plug in to your C programs.

Trippin - WB game based on an out-of-print
board game. The object is a race in which each
move you make restricts your opponent’s choice of
countermoves. Includes source.

Uedit-Stuff - Variety of configuration material
for Uedit. Indudes stuff for remembering multiple
chunks of deleted text, interfacing through Rexx
with a terminal program, displaying matching ’('
characters when you press')', expanding abbrevia¬
tions into phrases as you type, easily shifting lines
and blocks of text left or right, improvements to
several existing Uedit features, etc.

V • Front-end for More or some other text viewer

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that can be made resident. Can be used from WB,
reducing disk loading time because V is smaller
than More. From CU, causes More to create a new
window, specified with an environment variable,
rather than using the CU window. V is itself
residentable. Improved since disk 224. Includes
source in assembly.

DISK 430

Lotto - Small lotto number selector with C
source.

Pointer - Use the SID sleepy pointer in your
programs. Includes C source, a sample program,
and modules that you can plug in to your C pro¬
grams.

SculptTools - Programs to create objects for
use in Sculpt 4D. Includes Brush_4D to convert IFF
brushes to objects in full color with HAM and EHB
support and wrap to various shapes (update to disk
361), Fractal_4d to create fractal mountains with
various coloring from brush, checkers or based on
altitude, and Spiral_4d to create a variety of objects
based around tubes and helixes. Binary only.

SmartFields - Replacement for Intuition string
gadgets. It allows you to incorporate into your
Amiga C programs the powerful editing capabilities
often found in mini-computers. Includes full C source
and documentation.

DISK 431

A68Kex -12 examples demonstrating the use of
Charlie Gibbs A68K assembler. Over a quarter
megabyte of assembly source code.

AdvTemplates - A collection of PD spreadsheet
templates for business and law, originally intended
for Lotus 123 on IBM PC’s. They have been
transfered to the Amiga, loaded into Gold Disk’s
The Advantage', and saved as native Advantage
files. Requires 'The Advantage' vl.1 or higher.

CheetSheet - A compilation of cheats, hints,
backdoors, helpful bugs, passwords, codes, solves,
and walk-throughs for over 150 Amiga games.
January 1st, 1991 edition.

EZAsm - Combines parts of the 'C' language
with 68000 assembly, giving it the 'feel' of a higher
level language. Supports all 1.3 functions. Uses
braces and 'else' like 'C'. Resulting code is optimised
as much as possible. Takes source file you create
and outputs a .asm file. Includes example source
and executable files, vl.31, an update to vl.3 on
disk 421. Binary only.

DISK 432

APalAsm - Programmable Array Logic (PAL)
program based on an old MMI Fortran IV program
from the ‘PAL Handbook’ 2nd and 3rd Edition by
MMI. vl.00 - completely rewritten for Fortran 77.
The outputs produced are sent to separate files
instead of the screen. Plenty of example PAL files
to test and inspect. Fortran source included, with
instructions to compile using AC/Fortran v2.3.

Badger - Reminder program for your startup-
sequence. Badger will open a window and display
any important events that are 'due'. Events are
entered via menu and prompts. v2.01e, an update
to disk 365, and includes many new features.
Shareware, binary only.

Conquest - Lore of Conquest is a war game
similar in concept to the board game Risk. You are
the lord of an entire world, destined to rule the
galaxy. Some worlds are ready to colonise, others
have natives who do not wish to accept your rule,
these you must conquer for they will yield more
valuable resources. For two players, vl.2, binary
only, shareware.

FifoDev - Like PIPE: but based on fifo.library
rather than its own implementation. Fifo.library is a
general fifo library implementation that supports
named fifos, writing to a fifo from a hardware
exception, multiple readers on a fifo with each
getting the same data stream, efficient reading, and
automatic or manual flow control. Programs that
require non-blocking 10 can access one side of a
FIFO: connection via the fifo.library instead of the
FIFO: device. Includes some source.

Reader - Program to scan a word list to locate
which words can be made from the letters given.
Matching of words by length and by giving the
letters known, ie. m.t.h for the word MATCH. Great
for word games and crosswords. Results output to
screen and a RAM: based file. Word list is in ASCII
and so can be edited if desired. New words can be
added and it could be used for different languages
if required. Supplied with over 24,200 words, vl.0,
includes source.

SBackup - Programmers utility to assist in main¬
taining old versions of source code. SBackup main¬
tains 2-99 old versions. vl.OOe, binary only.

TMonth - Will execute any program - the 1 st time
it’s executed each month. Very useful, for example,
to execute the ATOM-CLOCK program to set your

clock each month. vl.Of, binary only.

Whence - Will locate any file in the current path.
vl.O, binary only.

DISK 433

DiskPrint - Prints labels for 3.5" disks, primarily
for PD library disks. Label data files can be loaded
into memory so labels for special disks are avail¬
able without having to type anything in or without
having to wait for AmigaDOS to read in the full
directory. This is v2.3.5, an update to v2.3e on
disk 411. Shareware, binary only.

Gwin - GWIN or Graphics WINdow is an inte¬
grated collection of graphics routines callable from
C. These routines make it easy to create sophisti¬
cated graphics programs in the C environment. One
line calls give you a custom screen (ten types
available), menu items, requestors, text, circles,
polygons, etc. GWIN is a two dimensional floating
point graphics system with convert between world
and screen co-ordinates. Includes built in clipping
that may be turned off for speed. Use of color and
XOR operations are greatly simplified. Many exam¬
ples of the use of GWIN are included in an examples
directory, including a line/bar graph program, geo¬
graphic mapping program, SPICE 2G.6 graphics
post processor, and others. Extensive documenta¬
tion is included. This is vl. 1, an update to vl.O on
disk 322, recompiled to be compatible with MANX
Aztec C Release 5.

Syslnfo - Program which reports information
about machine configuration, including speed com¬
parisons with other configurations, versions of the
DOS software, etc. vl.98, an update to vl.94 on
disk 420. Binary only.

Backup - Backup and Restore allow you to
backup any directory tree with optional compres¬
sion, and later extract all or part of the tree. The
protection, date, and file comment are saved with
each file. This is v2.06, an update to v2.04 on
disk 258. Includes source.

DynaCADD - Part 1 of a two part demo distribu¬
tion of DynaCADD from Ditek International.
DynaCADD is a professional 2D and 3D CAD
package. This demo is fully functional except for
disabled save and export functions. Requires a
system with 68020/68030 and a 68881/68882 math
processor. This disk contains all the files necessary
to recreate the DynaCADD demo disk number 1.
The files for demo disk number 2 can be found on

library disk number 435. This is vl.84, binary
only.

GMC - Console handler with command line ed¬

iting and function key support. GMC provides ex¬
tended command line editing, function key assign¬
ment in four levels, extended command line history,
online help for functions in the handler, and an
iconify function. Also includes an output buffer
(dump to printer and window), filename completer,
script function, undo function, prompt beeper,
pathname in window title, close gadget for KS 2.0,
etc. This is v9.8, an update to v9.6 on disk 398.
Shareware, binary only.

TypingTutor - Simple typing tutor which meas¬
ures typing speed and adjusts level of difficulty
accordingly. Shareware, binary only.

DeluxeBeep - A little program that uses the exec
SetFunction call to play a sound sample of your
choice whenever a program calls the Intuition
DisplayBeep routine. Includes source and instruc¬
tions on how to install your own sounds.

DynaCADD - Part 2 of a two part demo distribu¬
tion of DynaCADD from Ditek International.
DynaCADD is a professional 2D and 3D CAD
package. This demo is fully functional except for
disabled save and export functions. Requires a
system with 68020/68030 and a 68881/68882 math
processor. This disk contains all the files necessary
to recreate the DynaCADD demo disk number 2.
Files for demo disk 1 can be found on disk 434. This

is vl.84, binary only.

Labeler - A label generation program for Epson
compatible printers. v3.0, binary only, shareware,
source available from author.

DISK 436

AztecArp - Arp interface package fixed to work
with Aztec ‘C’ v5.0. vl.9, an update to disk 376,
includes bug fixes and new features (such as vsprintf I
vfprintf/ vprintf-like Arp routines and fixes for Kickstart
2.0). Includes source in 'C' and assembler.

BatchRequester - Program which opens an Arp
file requester and writes the result to an environ¬
ment variable. Useful with batchfiles.vM, source
code in Oberon.

Berserker - Eliminates viruses. Comes with
resident handler which continually checks memory

to prevent virus infection and a utility to fix pro¬
grams corrupted by the ‘Centurion’ and ‘Traveling
Jack’ viruses. v5.02, an update to disk 355.
Contains partial source in assembly.

Input - How to read keyboard input simply and
quickly. Includes C source, a sample program,
technical discussion, and programming modules
that you can 'plug in' to your own C programs.
Includes source.

KeyMacro - Keyboard macro program,
configurable via a text file, that supports hotkey
program execution. You can map up to eight func¬
tions to each key, including cursor keys, return key,
etc. vl.8, an update to vl.6 on disk 398. In¬
cludes source.

LhLib - A shared re-entrant Amiga runtime
library featuring highly optimised assembly lan¬
guage versions of the LhArc data compression /
decompression routines. Compresses faster and
more efficiently than any other currently available
implementation of the Lzhuf algorithm. 2 example
applications for data compression/decompression,
an interface to the Amiga Oberon Compiler, and
documentation how to use the library in your own
programs are included. This is vl.8, binary only.

MemGuard - Program similar to MemWatch
Continually checks the low memory vector table for
random trashing. Has been optimised and greatly
enhanced to support the 68010,68020,68030, etc.
microprocessors. v4, an update to villa on disk
354, binary only.

MMB - With MMB, users of 3 button mice under
WB 2.0 can use the middle mouse button as a shift
key to do multiple selects. Binary only.

MT420d - Printer driver for the Mannesmann
Tally MT420d. Update to disk 164.

Zoom - Floppy disk archiving utility based on the
data compression / decompression algorithms used
by Ih.library. Intuition and a Shell interface, sup¬
ports Kickstart 2.0, is able to add texts and notes to
archived output files, knows 66 different bootblock
viruses, includes compression parameters and lots
more. v3.10, binary only.

DISK 437

CLIwindow - Manipulate the dimensions of a
CU window, vl.00. Includes source in assem¬

bly.

Flip - Program which replaces the left-Amiga-N
and M commands with screen and window flipping
commands. v2.0, includes a technical discussion
and source in C and assembly. It is useful to add
graphics or sound samples to programs. vl.O,
includes source in assembler.

HDCIick - Program selector, typically installed
in the startup sequence as the 1st command. Has
user defined gadgets, a configuration file, an iconify
function, and works with both NTSC and PAL

systems, vl.21, binary only.

M2Utils - Various source modules for Bench¬

mark Modula-2. Includes ColorReq, an interface to
the Dissidents color.library; IFFLib, an interface to
Christian Webers iff.library; and ARP, an interface
to ARP vl.3.

DISK 440

3DPIot - 3D function plotting program that does
hidden line, solid, or contour plots of equations of
the form Z=F(X,Y). You can scale the plot, set plot
limits, change rotation, etc. Can save and load the
plots themselves, as well as the data. v2.0, in¬
cludes source.

DMake - Version of UNIX make utility. Features
multiple dependancies, wildcard support, etc. vl.O,
an update to vl.O on disk 246, but now includes
source.

MegaD - Disk utility. Allows an unlimited number
of directories to be accessed simultaneously, vl.01,

shareware, binary only.

DISK 441

Deksid - Disk / file hexadecimal editor. Useful
for editing binary files, vl.10, shareware, binary
only.

DiskPrint - Prints labels for 3.5' disks, primarily
for PD library disks. v2.3.5b, an update to V2.3.5
on disk 433. Shareware, binary only.

Dme - VI .42 of Matt’s cp for the Amiga, including
mail and news. This is Matt’s version for the Amiga,
based on William Loftus’s Amiga UUCP 0.40 re¬
lease with news code from his 0.60 release, and
months of work by Matt to make fixes and add
enhancements. v1.08D, an update to V1.06D on
disk 360, and consists of three parts. Parts 1 and
2 are on disk 442, and part 3 is on this disk.
Includes source.

DISK 444

ChinaChallenge - Game like Shanghai. Goal is
to remove all parts of the pile, the so called Dragon,
step by step. This dragon is composed of 120

different game pieces. You can always find four
pieces displaying the same picture or Chinese sym¬
bols. vll, an update to disk 312. Binary only.

EliteBBS - Online message and file handling
system. Features message base, private mail, file
library, support for xmodem, ymodem, and zmodem,
fully buffered serial I/O routines for top speed, time
limits, etc. v.31, binary only.

MissileCmd - Missile Command game in as¬
sembly. Features include using a hires interlaced
screen, time based events for correct operation on
any speed Amiga, multitasking friendly, and sound
effects. Binary only.

RegExpLib - Shared library that implements
regular expression pattern matching. vl.O, binary
only.

UltraF-4 - Demo of a super graphic based floppy
format program that can format 4 disks at the same
time. Binary only.

MWTape - Tape handler which uses scsi.device
to implement serial access to typical streaming
tape devices. Includes source.

OptMouse - Use a Mouse Systems M3 serial
mouse on the Amiga and instructions which allow a
serial mouse to be modified to plug directly into
Amiga mouse port. Useful as an example of how to
'fake' mouse movements and may be of use in
writing drivers for digitisers, light pens, etc. In¬
cludes source.

Tar - A port of a UNIX tar clone that can work with
the TAPE: handler (also on this disk) to read and
write UNIX tar compatible tapes. Includes source.

TurboText - Demonstration copy of a new text
editor. Features many unique capabilities including
an impressive ARexx interface with over 140 com¬
mands available, full outlining abilities, clipboard
support, complete reconfigurability, recorded mac¬
ros, programmer’s calculator, emulations of many
popular text editors, and much more. vl.O, binary
only.

UUCP - Bug fix for UUCP 1.08 released on disks
442 and 443.

DISK 446

CanonBJ - Printer driver for Canon BJ series of
printers. Faster and supports more graphic and text
modes than the standard driver. Shareware, binary
only.

GamePort - Toolkit with link time and shared
libraries that allow easy access to the Game Port
device. vl. 1 , binary only.

Input - Toolkit with link time and shared libraries
that allow easy access to the Input device, vl.1,
binary only.

PointerLib - Disk based shared library which
provides programmers with easy access to custom
pointers and a consistent user selected busy pointer.
Includes source.

Post - PostScript interpreter which implements
the full Adobe language. Supports type 1 and type
3 fonts, screen output, file output, and printer
output. Requires: Arp library V39+ and ConMan
V1.3+. vl.4, an update to vl.3 on disk 408.
Includes source in C.

DISK 447

AmiBack - Demo of a new backup utility. Fea¬
tures include backup to any AmigaDOS compatible
device, configuration files, complete backups, in¬
cremental backups, selective backups, file exclu¬
sion filter, setting of archive bit, etc. vl.O, binary
only, requires AmigaDOS 2.0.

BackPac - Demo of a new backup program.
Features include intuition interface, data compres¬
sion, 907K written per floppy, full and incremental
backups, full or selected restores, inclusion/exclu¬
sion patterns, user defined config files, multitasking
friendly, vl.3, binary only.

DFC - Disk Format and Copy program. v5, an
update to disk 131. Includes source.

FlashBack - Demo of a new backup utility.
Functional except for the restore operation. In¬
cludes backup of multiple partitions in one pass,
backup of non-AmigaDOS partitions, backup to a
file, automated unattended backups, pattern match¬
ing, etc. v2.05, binary only.

SMan - Mandelbrot generator. Uses the mouse
to select regions within borders of the Mandelbrot
set to zoom up to magnifications of 10**19. In¬
cludes math coprocessor support and options to
save images as an IFF file. Includes source.

TCL - Port of Tool Command Language, a sim¬
ple textual language intended primarily for issuing
commands to interactive programs such as text
editors, debuggers, illustrators, shells, etc. Has
simple syntax and is programmable so TCL users
can write command procedures to provide more
powerful commands than those in the built in set.
Alpha 2 version, binary only.

AMIGA ANNUAL 67

Fish Disks 400

DISK 448

AmigaPet - Screen hack. v2.52b, binary only,
source available from author.

FifoDev - FIFO: is like PIPE: but is based on
fifo.library rather than its own implementation.
Fifo.library is a general fifo library implementation
that supports named fifos, writing to a fifo from a
hardware exception, multiple readers on a fifo with
each getting the same data stream, efficient read¬
ing, and automatic or manual flow control. Pro¬
grams that require non-blocking 10 can access one
side of a FIFO: connection via the fifo.library in¬
stead of the FIFO: device. v2, an update to disk
432. Includes some source.

Mkid - Identifier database package that provides
a logical extension to ‘ctags’. The ID facility stores
the locations for all uses of identrfers, preprocessor
names, and numbers (in decimal, octal, or hex).
Includes source.

NightMare • Screen 'hack 1 . vl.O, binary only,
source available.

OnTime - Holds up a task until a given time and
then releases it to run. vl.Oa, binary only, source
available from author.

PicToANSI - Converts a one bit plane 320x200
IFF picture to a file that displays the picture on any
ANSI compatible terminal. Binary only, source
available.

SolltalreX • Card game. Includes all possible
moves shown with a pulsing green box around the
card, reshuffle, unlimited undo, and tournament
mode. Binary only.

ST2Amiga - Converts Atari ST format relocatable
executables to Amiga format relocatable
executables, for subsequent loading into the
Resource disassembler and convert to Amiga.
Should also compile and run on an Atari ST. vl.1,
Includes C source.

Swish - Screen hack that pushes the screen
around using the view port, and simulates a floating
motion. Binary only, source available.

DIS K 449

Globulus • Demo of an arcade game like Q-bert
You control a character and hop him around path¬
ways in a diagonal kind of world, while trying to
avoid bad things and catch good things. Binary only.

Handshake - Full featured VT52/VT100/VT102/
VT220 terminal emulator. Supports the full VT102
spec. Supports ANSI colors, screen capture, XPR
external protocols, user selectable fonts, ARexx,
and more. v2.20c, an update to v2.12a on disk
172. Binary only, shareware.

lff2ANSI - Turns any two-color low-res IFF
picture into ANSI text that can be displayed on any
ANSI compatible terminal. vO.1, Includes source
In assembly.

Shazam - Picture viewer for Dynamic HiRes
images created with Macro Paint, the 4096 color
high resolution paint program from Lake Forest
Logic, includes two sample Dynamic HiRes images
and source for display program, vl.1

WonderSound - Additive harmonic instrument
design tool with a separate envelope design win¬
dow and 16 relative harmonic strength and phase
angle controls, vl.7, an update to vl.6 on disk
428. Binary only.

DISK 450

AmyVsWalker - Animation from Eric Schwartz.
This one has Amy the Squirrel attempting to take a
wrench to the ‘Walker 1 from The Empire Strikes
Back'.

MinRexx - Simple ARexx interface • easily
patchable into almost any program. Includes as an
example the freedraw program from disk number 1.
v0.4, an update to disk 188. Includes source.

Tabu • Quarter inch cartridge (QIC) tape backup
utility. Works with Microbotics HardFrame. May
work with other controllers as well (untested).
Includes source.

UUCP - A bug fix for UUCP 1.08 released on
disks 442 and 443, which had already been finalised
at the time this fix reached me so could not be
included there.

DISK 491

‘Liner - Shareware outiiner whose function is to
create outlines for notes or export to other pro¬
grams. 'Liner can save an outline as ASCII text and
is clipboard compatible. Utilises a number of
AmigaDOS 2.0 features and thus requires 2.0.
Support for the new ECS Denise display modes is
also included. v2.11, an upgrade to v2.00 on disk
394. Includes source In C.

Convert - Converts 39 different image formats
into CBM standard 24 bit IFF files for display on
devices such as Black Belt Systems HAM-E prod¬
uct v 1.6, binary only.

ProDrivers • AmigaDOS 1.3 printer drivers for
the IBM 4201 and 4202 series of printers. vl.O,

binary only.

RCS - The Revision Control System (RCS)
manages multiple revisions of text files. RCS auto¬
mates the storing, retrieval, logging, identification,
and merging of revisions. RCS is useful for text that
is revised frequently, for example programs, docu¬
mentation, graphics, papers, form letters, etc. Up¬
date to RCS vl.2 on disks 281 and 282, includes
only files that have changed.

RRamDisk - Recoverable ram disk. Supports up
to 32 units and can be autobooted. Unused sectors
are deleted from memory. The ram disk can be
formatted, copied to, or used just like a normal disk
drive. Binary only.

SnoopDos • A utility for monitoring AmigaDOS
calls. In particular, it allows you to see what librar¬
ies, devices, fonts, environment variables or startup
files a program is looking for. Very useful when
you’re trying to install a new application. v12, an
update to vl.0 on disk 388. Includes source in
C.

DIS K 45 2

Budget - Program to help with managing per¬
sonal finances, vl.302, an update to vl.301 on
disk 416. Binary only.

FLODemo • Floorplan Construction Set demo.
Functional except the Save IFF function is disabled
and 15 pages of clip rooms have been replaced by
a single sample page, vl.48, binary only.

ImageLab • Performs image processing on IFF
pictures. Includes standard image processing func¬
tions such as convolution, averaging, smoothing,
enhancement, histograms, FFTs, etc. Also in¬
cludes file convert functions, a clipboard, and other
useful functions. v2.4, an update to v2J2 on disk
243, includes bug fixes, PAL support, overscanned
and super-bitmap image support, improved paint
operation, better area selection, HAM histograms,
and FFTs. Binary only.

MandelPAUG - Version of MandFXP with com¬
plete online help, a fully implemented Mandelbrot
and Julia set 'movie mode', and many improve¬
ments in the user interface. v2.1, binary only,
source available.

D1SKJS3.

AmtgaTration - 'Concentration' like game where
you must locate matching tiles on a grid that can
range from 4x4 (easy) to 12x12 (difficult). vl.O,
binary only.

Lemmings • Demo of THAT game. Binary only.

ProjMot - Projectile Motion plotter. Plots the
path of a projectile fired with a variable initial
velocity and angle. Display can be scaled, and time
can be accelerated. Returns the distance traveled
and the time it took, vl.01, includes source.

Quick - Program launcher. It eliminates the
need to open WB windows or remember and type in
long pathnames to executables. vl.O, binary only.

DISK 454

Decigel • Software fix for programs that use
instructions which are priviledged on the 68010/
020/030. Update to disk 18. Includes source in
assembly.

Enforcer - Enforcer uses the MMU to build a
shroud of protection over anything that is not legal
memory. Any empty holes in the address space are
marked as illegal. Reads of the system ROMs are
allowed, but not writes. With the exception of
longword reads of location 4, the lowest IK of
memory is completely protected. When an illegal
access is detected, the power LED will flash and a
detailed message will be sent out the serial port
Binary only.

Redaktu • PostScript program which runs on
PixelScript to edit other PostScript programs. Sev¬
eral examples and a detailed explanation are in¬
cluded.

StillStore - Program designed for freelance,
corporate, and broadcast television. It loads and
displays IFF images of any resolution interchange¬
ably from a list file or as inputted directly (I.E.
random access). The user may easily skip forward
or backward one or more pictures in the list The
program can be used 'on air 1 with no concern that a
pull down menu will suddenly appear in the view¬
able area. It also provides for a precise cue for
changing windows or screens. While the main
purpose is to load 'news windows' of 1/4 screen
size, StillStore can also handle full-sized and
overscanned images. Also includes slide show
modes and a screen positioning feature. StillStore
is written in The Director* from the Right Answers
Group. v1J.1, an update to v12 on disk 317.
Binary only.

Vortex - Universal accented character converter
for Amiga, IBM-PC, Macintosh, and C64 files writ¬
ten in most West European languages: Danish,
Finnish, French, German, Italian, Islandic, Norwe¬

gian, Spanish, Swedish, and more. Works with
either ASCII or Word Perfect files. vl.S, includes
source.

DJSJL155.

AngusCopy - Disk copy program with intuition
user interface. v2.0, shareware, includes source in
Modula II.

ConvMacF - Converts Macintosh type 1 Adobe
fonts to a format usable on the Amiga. Reads a
compressed Macintosh format Adobe font file and
unpacks it to an ASCII text file, which permits
sending the font to a printer as a PostScript pro¬
gram. Includes source.

MemMon - Small memory monitor. VII,
shareware, includes source in Modula II.

Vlt - VLT is both a VT100 emulator and a
Tektronix (4014 plus subset of 4105) emulator.
Features include use of ARP, an ARexx port, X-
Modem 1K/CRC and Kermit protocols, support for
additional serial ports, external file transfer protocols
(XPR), a ‘chat’ mode, and scrollback/review/his-
tory buffer. It comes in two versions, one with
Tektronix emulation, and one without. The Tektronix
emulation allows saving IFF files, PostScript files,
and printing bitmaps to the printer. V5.034, an
update to v4.846 on disk 410. Binary only.

DISK m

Cheatsheet - Compilation of cheats, hints,
backdoors, helpful bugs, passwords, codes, solves,
and walkthroughs for over 150 Amiga games. Feb-
ruary 1st, 1991 edition, an update to January 1st
edition on disk 431.

CManual - Parts 1 and 2 of a complete C manual
which describes howto open and work with Screens,
Windows, Graphics, Gadgets, Requesters, Alerts,
Menus, IDCMP, Sprites, VSprites, AmigaDOS,
Low Level Graphics Routines, Hints and Tips, etc.
The manual also explains how to use your C
compiler. Manual consists of 15 chapters together
with more than 100 fully executable examples with
source code.v2.0, an update to vl.O on disk 337.
Because of its size, it is distributed on two library
disks, parts 1 and 2 on disk 456 and parts 3 and 4
on disk 457.

P ISKW

CManual - Parts 3 and 4 of a complete C manual
which describes howto open and work with Screens,
Windows, Graphics, Gadgets, Requesters, Alerts,
Menus, IDCMP, Sprites, VSprites, AmigaDOS,
Low Level Graphics Routines, Hints and Tips, etc.
v2.0, an update to vl.O on disk 337. Because of
its size, it is distributed on two library disks, parts 1
and 2 on disk 456 and parts 3 and 4 on disk 457.

Line - Shell written to enhance the bare-bones
CU with features that many people find useful in the
UNIX csh, including history, aliases, a directory
stack, etc. vl.15, Includes source.

QuickReq • An 'Ask utility' to replace the 'ask 1
command from AmigaDOS. QuickReq can load
arguments from files thus making it possible to
handle long questions and texts. Also supports
optional line breaks in BodyText, an option to
center text to window, DisplayBeep when requester
is activated, setting your own FrontPen number,
specifying requesters width and height and all kinds
of overscan displays. 1st public release. v2.0,
Includes source.

Q1SEJS&

ATCopy - Copy files from the Amiga side of a
system equipped with a PC/AT bridgeboard, to the
PC side, using wildcards. Copies directly through
the shared memory. Supports CU and WB usage.
v2.2, an update to v2.1 on disk 429. New
features include much faster copying and selection
of all options using WB. Shareware, binary only.

Csh • v4.02a of a csh like shell derived from Matt
Dillon’s shell, v2.07. Update to v4.01a on disk
331. Changes include bug fixes, preservation of file
protection bits by cp, some new commands, and
reformatted documentation. Includes source.

GlFMachine - Converts CompuServe GIF im¬
age files into IFF SHAM and 24bit ILBMs. Requires
KickStart v2.0 or greater to run .v2.116, an update
to V2.104 on disk 405. Includes source.

TeXify - Package of ARexx scripts, for CygnusEd
users, which allows total control of AmigaTex from
within CEO. vl.lOe, binary only.

DISK 459

AmiDock - Amiga version of the NeXT’s 'dock',
but more versatile and not as limited. V1J2.4, bi¬
nary only.

Conquest - Lore of Conquest - war game. See
description of disk 432. vl.3, an update to vl.2 on
disk 432. Binary only, shareware.

Rxgen • ARexx library that allows you to call any
function of almost any Amiga library from an ARexx

program. vl.O, binary only.

XprZmodem - Amiga shared library which pro¬
vides Z-Modem file transfer capability to any XPR-
compatible communications program. v2.10, an
update to v2.0 on disk 261. Includes source.

Zoom - Fast floppy disk archiving utility based
on the data compression / decompression algo¬
rithms used by Ih.library. Has an intuition and a
Shell interface, fully supports Kickstart 2.0, is able
to add texts and notes to archived output files,
knows 66 different bootblock viruses, includes a
number of compression parameters (such as
encryption of the output file) and lots more. v4.1, an
update to v3.10 on disk 436. Binary only.

DISK 459

JMenu - AmigaDOS script to display a menu,
wait for the user to make a selection either with the
mouse or the keyboard, and return the selection
back to the script through an environment variable.
It can also immediately execute any valid AmigaDOS
command based upon the menu selection. The
maximum size of the menu is based on the screen
resolution and font size, up to a maximum of'26
selections of a maximum of 80 characters each and
an optional title area of up to 4 lines, vl.1, binary
only.

NetHack • Screen oriented fantasy game where
your goal is to grab as much treasure as you can,
retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, and escape the
Mazes of Menace alive. On the screen is a map of
where you have been and what you have seen on
the current dungeon level. As you explore more of
the level, it appears on the screen in front of you.
Nethack generates a new dungeon every time it is
played, thus even veteran players will continue to
find it entertaining and exciting. v3.0, patch level
10, an update to v2.3 on disks 189 and 190.
Binary only, source available.

ShadowMaker - Demo of an Intuition based
Font shadow generator, vl.5, an update to disk
428. Binary only.

DI SK 4S1

DFrags - Disk Fragmentation reporting utility.
Displays disk fragmentation for both floppy and
hard disk devices. Does not attempt to change any
data, just gives a report. v2.02, shareware, binary
only.

DiskPrint - Prints labels for 3.5* disks, primarily
for PD library disks. Label data files can be loaded
into memory so labels for most PD disks are
available after a few mouse clicks. Features in¬
clude 3 different label sizes, default file, different
label library functions, Amiga-Lib Disk contents
read-in and easy handling. v2.7J2, an update to
v2.3.5b on disk 441. Shareware, binary only.

Logic - Game - reminiscent of ‘life’. v2.0, In¬
dudes source In assembly.

MandAnim - Mandelbrot animation program
that allows you to easily generate series of lo-res/
16-color pictures. Features full mouse and/or
keyboard operation, zooms, auto-save, high (+cheat)
speed, iconisation, preview, ease, etc. The gener¬
ated pictures all remember their positions and
settings so they can be reloaded, vl.2, an update
to vl.1 on disk 887. Binary only.

NewUst - Powerful LIST replacement. Supports
many features including sorts, character filters,
case sensativity, most options offered by LIST,
date construction, UNIX wildcards, and much more.
Sort routines are VERY fast and memory usage is
minimal. v4.5, binary only.

SBall • Game using the joystick to control a
‘bouncing ball 1 . Binary only.

TDraw - Window Title Bar Pattern Editor for use
with TBar. Load, save, test, and edit patterns.
Saves script files that can be executed later to
change window patterns at anytime (like at boot¬
up). Includes TRand, a utility to pick a random TBar
file so your WB will look different each time you
reboot. vl.O, binary only.

Tron - Game based on lightcycle race sequence
from science fiction film Tron'. vl.0, unrelated to
other Tron releases in the library. Includes source
in assembly.

DISK 462

CacheDisk - Improves floppy disk throughput by
caching entire tracks of data. Buffers disk reads and
writes for maximum speed gain, user setable number
of buffers for each drive. vl.O, binary only.

DisTerm • The dissidents telecommunication
program. Has built in phone directory requester,
autodial, various file transfer protocols, ASCII send
and capture, full/half duplex, split window, color
requester, macro keys, selectable baud, CR/LF
expansion, automatically configured per phone en¬
try. Binary only.

Humartia • An arcade game where each player
controls a jet and must destroy the opponents jet,

AMIGA ANNUAL 68

which is accomplished when a jet has been hit 75 by
either missiles or air mines. Binary only.

SeaLance - Game based on a Trident submarine
simulator. Use the weapons at your disposal to
liberate the earth’s cities from alien occupation.
Binary only.

Up&Down - The object of this game is to get four
of your chips in a row (across, down, or diagonally)
without letting your opponent get his chips in a row
first. Binary only.

DISK 463

ExecRexx - Turns an ARexx script into an ex¬
ecutable which can be run from WB or the CU.
Binary only.

FilelO - File requester library based upon an
example by R.J. Mical. Has numerous features,
including uses other than disk I/O. vl.C, update to
vl.9 on disk 393. Binary only.

ILBM - The ilbm reader/writer library 0.5 and
examples. Also can be used for non-ILBM files.
Binary only.

LibTool - Converts C or assembly code into an
Amiga shared library. Also makes all support files
including C and assembly include files, bmap files,
Manx and Lattice pragmas, C glue stubs. Can also
make a device. Binary only.

PrintSpool - Shared library to easily add text or
graphics print spooling to any C or assembly pro¬
gram. Binary only.

Rexxlntuition - ARexx function library which
allows ARexx scripts to open windows/screens,
add menus, add proportional, boolean, and string
gadgets, use requesters, load/save ILBM pictures,
use a color requester, print text in various colors,
sizes, and styles, draw colored lines and boxes,
print text or graphics, etc. Binary only.

RexxLib - Shared library - used to add an ARexx
implementation to any program. Binary only.

DISK 464

Cross - Creates crossword puzzles. Has a mes¬
sage data file to allow easy translation into most
languages. v3.3, includes source in M2Amiga
Modula-2.

FileWindow - Public domain file requester.
Dynamically allocates memory to hold the file names
so the only limitation is the amount of memory
available. Includes a filter option to limit display of
filenames to only ones with a specific extension.
Names are automatically sorted while they are
being read and displayed. Has been enhanced by
Bernd Schied for more device gadgets, renaming of
files and directories, ANSI-C source, and more.
Update to vl.10 on disk 336. Includes source.

PictureEditor - An 'object-oriented' paint pro¬
gram that allows you to create, modify, load, and
save hierarchical structured picture objects, vl. 12,
shareware, binary only.

Scan - Displays the individual character con¬
tents of any file. Displays the ASCII and Hex
values, count and percentage of total along with
actual character (if displayable). Listing is dis¬
played on a console window or optionally written to
an output file. Possible uses would be to scan files
for binary characters, relative character counts,
matching numbers of special characters, determin¬
ing LF/CR configurations, etc. vl.O, includes
source.

DISK 465

FCS - Pre-release of an iterated Fractal Con¬
struction Set program, used to generate iterated
fractal images such as Sierpinski’s triangle, ferns,
etc. v0.99, binary only.

Lz - An Lharc compatible archiver that is re¬
ported to be much faster than other available
archivers and produce smaller archives, vl.01,
shareware, binary only.

MRBackUp - Hard disk backup. Does a file by
file copy to standard AmigaDOS floppy disks. In¬
cludes an intuition interface and file compression.
v5.02a, an update to v3.4 on disk 327. Shareware,
binary only.

TextPlus - Word processor. V2.2E, the same as
on disk 375. This release includes the source (the
description on disk 375 claims the source is in¬
cluded but it is not).

DISK 466

DICE - Dillon’s Integrated C Enviroment. A C
frontend, pre- processor, C compiler, assembler,
linker, and support libraries. Features include ANSI
compatibility, many code optimisations, and autoinit
routines (user routines called during startup before
main is called), v2.06.15 (2.06B), an update to
v2.06.14 on disk 443. Shareware, binary only.

HamLabDemo - Demo of an expandable image
format convert utility. Converts GIF, TIFF,
PBMPLUS, Spectrum 512, MTV, QRT, and Sun
images into HAM and SHAM. Images can be

scaled, dithered, color corrected, and cropped. This
demo vis limited to processing images of 512 by 512
pixels or less, vl.1, shareware, binary only.

Mosaic - Game played with a set of 81 two-by-
two tiles on a 24-by-24 playing area. Objective is to
place your tiles such that squares of the same
pattern are connected as much as possible. vl.O,
includes source.

StopWatch - Stop watch application with the
precision of one milli- second (variable), which
scans the joystick button. Full multitasking capabil¬
ity and intuition interfacing, ARexx port for param¬
eter and result handling, and supports all non¬
proportional WB fonts. Written in Modula 2 and
assembler. v2.0, binary only.

DISK 467

Multiplot - Intuitive data plotting program fea¬
turing flexible input options, arbitrary text addition,
automatic scaling, zoom and slide with clipping at
boundaries, a range of output file formats and
publication quality printed output. WB printers are
supported via transparent use of the PLT: device.
vXLNd, an update to vXLNc on disk 373. In¬
cludes bug fixes, many new features, postscript and
HP LaserJet III support, logarithmic axes.

Snap - Use the mouse to mark characters any¬
where on the screen, and then paste them some¬
where else, such as in another CL! or in a string
gadget. Checks what font is used in the window you
snap from and will look for the position of the
characters automatically. Recognises all non pro¬
portional fonts of up to 24 pixels wide and of any
height. Works with AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.O, binary
only.

DISK 468

Post - PostScript interpreter which implements
the full Adobe language. Supports type 1 and type
3 fonts, screen output, file output, and printer
output. Requires Arp library V39+ and ConMan
VI.3+. vl.5, an update to vl.4 on disk 446.
Changes include better type 1 font rendering and
some bug fixes. Includes source in C.

Vlt - Vlt V5.045, a partial update to v5.034 on disk
455. Includes new executables with and without
Tektronix emulation, and a new xprascii library.
You still need the files from disk 455 to make a
complete distribution. Binary only.

DISK m

AirAce - WWI biplane shoot’em up game built
using Accolade’s Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit.
Binary only.

FastLife - A fast life program featuring an intui¬
tion interface, four screen sizes, 19 generations/
second, and 153 patterns in text file format. Vl.O,
binary only.

Triangle - Game like Chinese checkers, consist¬
ing of fourteen pegs and one empty hole in a
triangular formation. The object of the game is to
leave one peg in the original empty hole or have
eight pegs on the board and no possible moves.
vl.1, includes source in BASIC.

WordPuzzle - Object of the game is to find a
word in a puzzle arrangement. There are 3 varia¬
tions of the game, vl.1, includes source in BA¬
SIC.

DISK 470

BCF - FORTRAN-77 compiler, linker, and runtime
support library. No Amiga specific hooks, just va¬
nilla FORTRAN. ANSI compatible with extensions.
v1.3c, binary only.

KeyMenu - Alternative to Intuition’s method of
menu selection via the keyboard. Uses one key to
activate the menu for the currently active window,
the cursor keys to move through the menu as you
choose, and the return key to select the desired
menu item or escape key to abort selection. Works
with AmigaDOS 2.0 mouse accelerator and has
option to blank Intuition’s pointer, vl.03, includes
assembly source.

TripleYachtZ - Implementation and variation of
the game ‘Yacht’. Plays both Single (the standard
game) and Triple, which differs from normal Yacht-
Z in that all scores in the 3rd column of your
scorecard are worth three times as much as the
normal value and those in the 2nd are worth double.
vl.2, binary only.

BTNTape - A 'Better Than Nothing' SCSI tape
device handler. It provides flat file access to a SCSI
tape drive from application programs using simple
DOS calls to Read() and WriteO- It can also be used
with the Amiga TAR utility for disk backups. It
requires a 'SCSI-direct' compatible SCSI bus
adapter but will also work with the A2090(A). It now
supports many more tape drives, and has some new
features. v2.0, an update to vl.O on disk 392.
Includes source.

Machlll - A 'mouse accelerator 1 program that

also includes hotkeys, features of sun mouse,
clicktofront, popCU, title bar clock with a bbs online
charge accumulator, Arexx support and much more.
Updates for WB 2.0 have been added along with
many fixes and new features. v3.1, an update to
v3.0 on disk 378. Binary only.

MoleWt - MoleWt is a molecular weight calcula¬
tor. The program accepts a chemical formula and
returns the molecular weight, vl.01, binary only.

Uedit - A nice shareware editor with learn mode,
a command language, menu customisation,
hypertext, online help, a teach mode, split windows,
copy and paste, undo, features. v2.6e, an update
to v2.6c on disk 415. Binary only.

DISK 472

CNewsBin - This is part 1 of a C News distribu¬
tion for the Amiga. This part includes all the binary
and text files necessary to set up and run C News.
Part 2 is available on disk 473 and contains the
source. C News uses UUCP, such as Matt Dillons
implementation (see disks 479 and 480) or that
included with this software’s previous version (disk
319). This package has been reworked and now
includes a newsreader, AmigaRN (Sharware). All
major (and a few minor) features of Unix C News
are implemented. Release 15-Dec-90, an update
to the orginal on disks 318 and 319.

ICalc - An expression calculator that works with
real and complex numbers, has arbitrarily-named
variables and user-defined functions, startup files
and more. vl.O, includes source.

IFFBeep - Replace the screen flash of
DisplayBeepO with any IFF 8SVX sound file. Also
plays sounds on disk insertion/removal. v2.0, bi¬
nary only.

DISK 473

BigBrother - Virus infection detection program.
It runs as a normal task and checks every 1 second
the important memory locations in the Amiga. Ca¬
pable of starting a new shell, starting script files,
viewing and installing bootblocks. Includes assem¬
bly source.

CNewsSrc - This is part 2 of a C News distribu¬
tion for the Amiga. This part includes all the source
for C News. Part 1 is available on disk 472 and
includes all the binary and text files necessary to set
up and run C News on the Amiga. CNews uses
UUCP, such as Matt Dillons implementation (see
disks 479 and 480) or that included with this sofware’s
previous version (disk 319). This package has been
reworked and now includes a newsreader, AmigaRN
(Sharware). All major (and a few minor) features of
Unix C News are implemented. Release 15-Dec-
90, an update to the orginal on disks 318 and
319.

Family_Sol - A preliminary of the Authors ‘Fam¬
ily Solitair’ card game. A standard game of Solitair
with options for multiple players, sound etc. Binary
only.

MissileCmd - A fast Missile Command game
written in assembly. Features include using a hires
interlaced screen, time based events for correct
operation on any speed Amiga, multitasking friendly,
and sound effects. v2, an update to disk 444, with
bug fixes and enhancements. Binary only.

DISK 474

Aequipot - Renders multicolor pictures using an
algorithm based on electrostatic effects. Renders in
low-res and high- res, and in two speed/quality
modes. Includes both PAL and NTSC versions of
the program. English and German docs, vl.06,
includes source in PCQ, freeware.

AmiDock - AmiDock is an Amiga version of the
NeXT’s Dock facility. It will open up a small window
on your WB full of little IFF brushes, Each brush
represents an application, like an ICON but it’s a
brush. Click on the brush and your application will
start, vl.2.4. Shareware, binary only.

CrcLists - Complete CRC check files for disks
401-470 using the brik program. These were made
directly from my master disks. Update to the lists
on disk 401.

Enforcer - Detects/protects against illegal
memory hits. Compatible with all DOS versions &
machines (requires a Memory Management Unit or
68030 processor). The low IK of memory and all
areas that are not RAM are protected from CPU
reads or writes. ROM is marked as read-only.
v2.6f, binary only.

GreekFont - A 12 point font with Greek letters.
vl.O. Author: D. Moosbrugger

Imperium - Strategic, 'RISK' style game for up
to four players. Based in the ancient times of Rome,
Athens, Alexandria and Carthago. Binary only,
shareware ($10), Manx-C source available from
author. English V1.66E and German V1.79D.
Update to v1.50E on Disk 362.

DISK 475

AssignX - A 2.0-only utility to create assign¬
ments when you get a ‘Please insert volume’ re¬
quester. Also lets you cancel the request, forever.
Installs by dropping into your WBStartup drawer.
vl.O, includes source.

Blankette - Screen blanker/dimmer. Very nice
on your system, very little CPU time, compatible
with just about everything. Dims screen rather than
going black. Includes assembler source.

CITAS - Convert ILBM To Assembler Source.
CITAS allows one to easily put graphics into his/her
own programs. CITAS takes a standard IFF ILBM
image file and converts it into either assembler or
‘C’ source code. Designed for blitter image control,
all of the necessary labels are generated, along
with color map information, mask generation, and
other options. v2.0, shareware, binary only.

GadgetED - For creating and editing intuition
gadgets. Includes a palette editor, generation of
either C or assembly source, and binary saving for
later loading and editing. Also comes with
‘PatchGE’, a program for converting the original
format of GadgetED binaries to be loadable by this
and future versions. v2.3, an update to v2.0 on
disk 438, includes source.

ToolLib - A shared library containing 45 useful
functions for all kinds of programs. There are
functions for ports, sorting, gadgets, memory, string,
directory and file handling, etc. v8.1, an update to
v7.6 on disk 438, includes source.

DISK 476

Browser - A programmer's 'Workbench'. Allows
you to easily and conveniently move, copy, rename,
and delete files & directories from a CU environ¬
ment. vl.7, an update to disk 180, binary only.

MED - Music editor - like SoundTracker. A song
consists of up to 50 blocks of music, which can be
played in any order. Editing features include cut/
paste/copy tracks or blocks, changing the vibrato,
tempo, crescendo, and note volume. Otherfeatures
include switching of the low-pass-filter on or off on
a per song basis, and a cute little animated pointer
of a guy doing ‘jumping jacks’ in time to the music!
Improvements include AmigaDOS 2.0 compatibil¬
ity. v3.00, an update to v2.13 on disk 424. Binary
only.

Mostra - IFF utility featuring real-time unpacking
scroll, dozens of options, ‘smart’ analysis of any
IFF file (FORMs, USTs,... also nested ILBM!),
total control over display modes, simple slideshow
processing, pattern matching, SHAM, an external
link to show Dynamic Mode pictures, double buffer¬
ing, fast decompression, color cycling, TeXdocs,
startup files for easy custom configurations and
complete WB support, through ToolTypes and Style
icons! vl.14, an update to vl.O on disk 330.
Binary only.

ToolManager - ToolManager is a full featured
program to add programs (either WB or CU) to the
tools menu of the 2.x WB. Programs can be added
by dragging their icons onto the ToolManager ‘config’
window or the optional ToolManager icon or by
editing the config file. Requires WB 2.0. vl.3, an
update to disk 442. Includes source.

DISK 477

IRMaster - This is a hardware/software project to
allow the Amiga to read an infrared remote control
via the parallel port. Includes an ILBM of the
schematic for a simple interface to the A1000
parallel port, some modifications are needed for
other Amigas. The source code and executable for
a reader program are included. For further function¬
ality modifications to the source can be performed.

MegaBall - New version of the game ‘Ball’ by the
same author. It is a Breakout type game, and is very
good. Complete with impressive sound. Binary
only.

NoDelete - This program pops up a requestor to
alert you of a file deletion being attempted via
DeleteFileO and allows you accept or cancel it.
This also pertains to any files you attempt to delete
via ‘delete’. vl.Sa source is included.

DISK 478

LSIabel - A simple label printing utility. Very
powerful as the user can/must do a lot of settings by
himself. Features include variable linefeeds (in 1/
216 inch steps), a very exactly setting of the label
length and freely configurable printer codes. vl.O,
binary only.

MEDSongs - A selection of musical pieces
created with MED, the musical editor program (see
disk 476 for MED 3.00). Includes MEDPlayer v3.0.

MP - For sending any MIDI data back and forth
between an Amiga and a MIDI instrument. Helpful
for learning about MIDI, writing/debugging MIDI
software, figuring out your instrument’s system-
exclusive implementa- tion, and more. vl.O, in-

AMIGA ANNUAL 69

Fish Disks 400 - 550

dudes source.

NewUst • A powerful UST replacement. Sup¬
ports many features including sorts, character fil¬
ters, case sensitivity, most options offered by UST,
date construction, UNIX wildcards, and much more.
Sort routines are very fast and memory usage is
minimal. v4.9, an update to v4.S on disk 461.
Binary only.

p isk m

CheckPrt - A small program for checking the
presence of a parallel printer from within a script
file. Binary only.

TOP • A small trackdisplay program that uses
whatever screen is up front. Binary only.

UUCP - An implementation of uucp, including
mail and news. v1.13D, an update to v1.08D on
disk 442, and consists of four parts. Parts 1 and 2
are on this disk, and parts 3 and 4 are on disk 480.
Includes source.

DISK JM

Cryptor - Encrypts and decrypts data (files). It
uses a mathematical algorithm with password key
protection. Has both English and German versions
and documentation. vl.O, binary only.

NoCare • Speeds up your windowing environ¬
ment. The OpenWindow vector is patched. When
someone tries to open a window in the WB screen,
the lower refreshbit in the nwFlags field is cleared.
This way, only NOCAREREFRESH windows will
be opened, resulting in faster window movements.
Windows opened in custom screens are not af¬
fected. v1.S. Assembly source included.

TplEdit • A gadtools template editor. It is able to
generate nearly standalone C source code. The
program will only run under DOS 2.0, Kickstart
37.73 or higher, vl.00 Alpha. Includes source.

UUCP - Implementation of uucp for the Amiga,
including mail and news. This is Matt’s version for
the Amiga, based on William Loftus’s Amiga UUCP
0.40 release with news code from his 0.60 release,
and months of work by Matt to make fixes and add
enhancements. v1.13D, an update to V1.08D on
disk 442, and consists of four parts. Parts 1 and 2
are on disk 479, and parts 3 and 4 are on this disk.
Includes source.

P IS K 49 1

K1 - An editor program for the Kawai K1-II
synthesiser. Includes a bankloader for single¬
patches and multi-patches, a single- patch editor, a
multi-patch editor, and support for the effect-ses¬
sion and K1 controllers, v4.fi, binary only.

MCP • TRON' like cycle race game for up to four
players. VI 3.76, update to disk338, includes source
in assembly.

TLPatch - Allows corrections in pronunciation for
programs that use the TranslateO function. It al¬
lows you to extract the exception table from the
translator.library, use a text editor to edit the table,
and then restore it back into the library, vl.0,
indudes source.

WaveMaker - Intended to give beginning music
and physics students a hands on feel for how
complex waves are made by adding a harmonic
series of sine waves. A fundamental and up to
seven harmonics are available. The resulting wave¬
form can bp displayed on the screen or played on
the audio device using the keyboard like a piano.
vl2, an update to vl.1 on disk 318, with several
bugs fixed, more efficient code, and a new display
option. Includes source.

DISK 482

Ephemer • Calculates the positions of the sun,
moon, and planets for any date and any place.
Includes source in HiSoft BASIC.

Molec3D • Interactive 3D solid modelling pro¬
gram for molecules. Produces a graphic, three
dimensional representation of molecules, based on
3D coordinates data from geometry optimisation
• programs, X-ray measurements, or any other source.
Can handle up to 500 atoms at a time. Requires
1Mb. vl.022, binary only.

DISK 483

ButExchange - Input handler to help left handed
Amiga users, it reverses the function of the mouse
buttons, so that the left button becomes the right
and vice versa. Very small, uses only 168 bytes of
memory. vl.O, Includes source In assembler.

ColorSamples - Executable color samples made
by ColorCatch from disk 396. Contains the 'old'
colors from kickstart 1.3 and the ‘new’ colors from
kickstart 2.0. Very useful because some programs/
icons look awful when displayed in colors other than
the ones they were created for.

InputLock - Input handler to help Amiga users
who have cats other pets (or children) that mess
with the Amiga as soon as it is left for a second. It

installs an input handler which lets you lock the
keyboard and mouse by pressing a few buttons.
Very small, uses only 190 bytes of memory. vl.O,
Includes source In assembler.

MED - Music editor that can be used to compose
music for demos/games etc. It can be used as a
stand-alone music program as well. The features
include built-in sample editor, synthetic sound edi¬
tor, MIDI support (up to 16 tracks), and options to
read/write NoiseTracker modules. Included are rou¬
tines that allow programmers to easily incorporate
music made with MED in their programs. v3.10, an
update to v3.00 on disk 476. Binary only.

MouseXY • Opens a little window in which it
shows the mouse coordinates and the color at that
position. It can be moved from screen to screen and
is able to show coordinates even when you are
moving/resizing windows or moving WB icons.
vl.O, Includes source in assembler.

PfcSaver • Allows you cut rectangular portions
of any screen and store them on disk as IFF ILBM
files. Also allows easy saving of windows and entire
screens to disk. vl.O, Includes source In assem¬
bler.

PointerX • Spins the hands of any pointer that
looks like the standard AmigaDOS 2.0 WB ‘busy 1
pointer (a clock). Will also work with any application
that uses the same pointer. Includes source.

PWKeys • Input handler. Manipulate windows
and screens by pressing keys on the keyboard. It
currently lets you perform 17 different functions.
Includes an interactive program to define hotkeys.
Very small, uses only 1124 bytes of memory. vl.O,
Includes source in assembler.

TD - Like TrackDisplay on disk 399. it monitors
and displays the current track for each floppy disk
connected to the Amiga. vl.O, Includes source in
assembler.

DISK 484

BootPic - Install nearly any IFF picture that you
like in place of the WB hand that appears after a
reset vl.O, Includes source In assembly.

EZAsm • Combines parts of 'C' with 68000
assembly language. The resulting code is optimised
as much as possible. Now bundled with A68k and
Blink for a complete programming environment.
New ‘c.lib’ functions and more. vl.S, an update to
vl.31 on disk 431. Includes example source and
executable files. Binary only.

MSCIock - Clock. Displays memory, date, time
and online time (if connected to another computer
via modem) in the titlebar of the WB screen. v12,
includes source.

Spright - Spright is a sprite making utility.
Simple or attached sprites can be saved to a file
ready to be added to your program. The colors used
with the sprite(s) will also be saved, vl.2, binary
only. '

TextPlus • Word processor. v3.0, an update to
v22E on disk465. New features include the ability
to print footnotes and serial letters, multiple win¬
dows, an ARexx-interface with 120 commands,
powerful block-operations, ANSI-compatibility, abil¬
ity to load files crunched by PowerPacker, etc.
Shareware, binary only.

Viewer - Displays IFF pictures fast. vl.O. In¬
cludes source in EZAsm.

DISK 485

Drawmap - Draws representations of the Earth’s
surface. Includes a completely rewritten user inter¬
face and some new functions. v225d, an update
to v2.0 on disk 315. Includes source.

NiftyTerm - NiftyTerm is an hi 9/VT102/VT52
emulator. It was originally designed to be used with
DNet, but it has been expanded so that it may be
used as a normal terminal emulator. Niftyterm was
designed to be a good emulation of these terminals,
as well as being fairly small and fast, v'12, an
update to vl.0 on disk 403. Binary only, source
available.

Spades • Card game 'Spades'. It is a one player
version, where the computer plays your partner and
two opponents, vl.2, an update to vl.1 on disk
392. Includes source In C.

DISK 486

Metafont - Port of the Metafont package, a
program to create TeX fonts. Includes versions for
68000 and 68020. Disk 487 contains a copy of the
Metafont font source files from the TeX distribution
tape, including the Computer Modem Roman and
the LaTeX fonts, v2.7, binary only.

SoundEd - Demo of an 8SVX sound editing

package, written in machine code for optimum
speed and minimum size. Can also be used for
digitising with SoundEd or Perfect Sound hard¬
ware. vl.O, demo, binary only.

PJJULMZ

AssignX • A WB2.0 only utility to create assign¬
ments when you get a 'Please insert volume 1 re¬
quester. Also lets you cancel the request, forever.
Installs by dropping into your WBStartup drawer.
vl.2, an update to vl.O on disk 475. Includes
source.

MFSrc - Copy of the Metafont font source files
from the TeX distribution tape, suitable for use with
the Amiga port of Metafont on disk 486. Included
are the Computer Modern Roman and the LaTeX
fonts. These should be sufficient to run a normal
TeX installation.

PPrint - Print utility, designed for all those who
slowly but surely become frustrated with program¬
mers who think that they can do a form feed better
than their printer can. This one relies on the printer
itself to do the formatting, and on the program to
send the settings. Includes a full icon driven user
interface, the ability to convert tabs to any size, and
the ability to save a number of standard settings.
vl.10, Includes source.

DISK 488

LordOfHosts • Game for 2 players based on a
board game called 'Shogun'. Features include flex¬
ible mouse/joystick controls, undo and redo of up to
500 preceding steps, fully intuition-ised user inter¬
face. vl.O, complete source code, precompiled
include files and debugger files included.

MidiTools • Several utility programs for a Midi
system. Update to disk 159. Includes 3 new pro¬
grams, two of which are synth editors, and compat¬
ibility with AmigaDOS 2.0. Binary only.

SGD • Makes it possible to delete games, that
are saved by any of the existing Sierra adventures
(e.g. Leisure Suit Larry). Has a LEARN option for
including new adventures. vl.O, binary only.

SuperDuper • Disk copier and formatter. Can
make up to 4 unverified copies from a ram buffer in
36 seconds. Verified copies from a ram buffer take
67 seconds for one destination drive, plus 34 sec¬
onds for each additional destination. Binary only.

View80 • Scrolling text file reader with three
scrolling modes controllable via keyboard or mouse.
Opens file requestor if no filename is given. Auto¬
matically configures screen sise for PAL or NTSC
machine. v2.0, an update to vl.1 on disk 365.
Binary only.

RISK 499

Automata • Cellular automaton simulation. Vir¬
tually every aspect of the simulation can be altered,
saved, and later recalled. Also supplies many pow¬
erful editing functions (such as patterns, rotations,
reflections, etc) for creating and modifying cell
configurations. Additional features include editable
icons, an immense variety of rules from which to
choose, 'music’ which changes as the cell configu¬
ration changes and methods to speed execution
from 3 to 60 (or more) generations per second.
Binary only.

MkBmap - Builds Amiga format bitmapped fonts
from PostScript fonts. Uses the library ‘post.library’
(disk 468) to render the characters. Best results are
obtained with fully hinted type 1 fonts, such as those
supplied by Adobe and other vendors, vl.0, In¬
cludes source.

SKsh - A ksh-like shell. Some of its features
include command substitution, shell functions with
parameters, aliases, local variables, local func¬
tions, local aliases, powerful control structures and
tests, emacs style line editing and history functions,
I/O redirection, pipes, large variety of built-in com¬
mands, Unix style wildcards, Unix style filename
conventions, filename completion, and coexistence
with scripts from other shells. Very well docu¬
mented. vl.7, an update to vl.6 on disk 381. Lots
of new features and bug fixes. Binary only.

pmjsQ

AmiCheck - Checkbook program. Allows you to
enter your checks in a very natural style, giving you
a running balance as you do so. Options include
reconciling your checkbook, starting new registers
with outstanding checks only, printing all, cleared,
outstandid or selected entries, and more. v2.0,
shareware, binary only, requires AmigaDOS 2.0.

AntlLemmin - Another great, humorous, anima¬
tion from Eric Schwartz. This one was obviously
inspired by the wonderful Lemmings game. Lasts a
full two minutes and ten seconds. Requires at least
2 Mb of memory.

Recolor - Configurable icon recoloring tool that
can swap or shift the colors of selected icons and
truncate the depth of the icon color map. Binary

D ISK.4 91

bBssetl - Database program using an intuition
interface. Stores, sorts, and searches for informa¬
tion. Limited to 9 fields in each record. Features
include fast sorting, search in any field, and best of
all, it’s really easy to use. Binary only.

DICE - Dillon’s Integrated C Enviroment. A C
frontend, pre- processor, C compiler, assembler,
linker, and support libraries. Features include ANSI
compatibility, many code optimisations, and auto
init routines (user routines called during startup
before main is called), v2.06.21, an update to
v2.06.15 on disk 466. Includes bug fixes and
experimental dynamic object module loading sup¬
port. Shareware, binary only.

fBlanker - For blanking the screen after a de¬
fined period of no action. Shows a multicolor Amiga
checkmark, vl.1, binary only, requires AmigaDOS
2 . 0 .

Klondike - Single player card game, vl.lc,
binary only. Shareware.

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LoanCalc - Keyboard and mouse driven mort¬
gage utility. Although similar programs exist, this
one is unique in that it is designed to track ‘Open’
mortgages that allow any size payment to be made
at anytime, as well as providing a printed amortisa¬
tion table for fixed mortgages with monthly, semi¬
monthly, bi-weekly and weekly payment schedules.
vl.4, an update to vl.2 on disk 366. Binary only.

SBProDemo - Demo of Superbase Professional
4 complete with sample application. The limitations
are 35 records max per file, programs can be edited
but not saved, and forms can be edited but not
saved or printed. In every other respect this is
identical to the release product. SBpro4 is compat¬
ible with SB4 Windows VI.21. Vl.O, binary only.

DISK 493

AmiBack - Demo of a new backup utility. Fea¬
tures include backup to any AmigaDOS compatible
device (such as floppies, removable hard disks,
fixed media hard disk, and tape drives), no copy
protection, configuration files, complete backups,
incremental backups, selective backups, file exclu¬
sion filter, setting of archive bit, etc. Demo does not
have restore, compare, or scheduler, vl.03, an
update to vl.O on disk 447. Binary only.

AmigaUb - A library of WB/ROM-Kemel inter¬
face routines for use with AbSoft Fortran. Includes
source.

AmiGantt • A project definition and manage¬
ment tool designed to create a simple, interactive
method of outlining the task required to complete a
particular project, using the GANTT chart as the
input format AmiGantt displays the project in a
multi- window mode with separate windows for the
GANTT chart, task information input, resource
histogram display, and Pert chart display. Up to 500
tasks may be defined for any project, and a project
may contain other projects as tasks. V4.0.0, an
update to v3.0.0 on disk248. Shareware, binary
only.

BBFormat - Floppy disk formatter for diskettes
with hard errors. Bad media areas are mapped out
so AmigaDOS will not use them. Presently not
intuitionised, runs from CU only. V5/7/91, includes
source.

BizCalc - Loan calculator that calculates weekly
and biweekly loans. Can generate amortisation
tables to the screen, to the printer, or to a file. Uses
menus, bottons, or keyboard commands, and
iconifies. Has 6 decimal precision option and more.
vl. 1, an and expansion of MortCalc 2.5 on disk
385. Binary only.

Connex - 'Connect-4' type game. Shareware,
binary only.

ScreenMod • Modifies most of the parameters of
any screen structure in memory, including colors
and viewmodes. Useful for PAL programs which
open their screens low. Has a companion program
to automate changes later on. vl.0, Includes
source.

BI SK 49 4

Bref - Cross reference program for AmigaBASIC
code. Generates a list of the BASIC code with lines
sequentially numbered, plus a table showing all
variables and labels used in the code, and the line
numbers where they were used. v2.0, an update to
vl.0 on disk283. This is a major revision, including
a new intuition interface. Includes source.

ButExchange - Input handler to help left handed
Amiga users. It reverses the function of the mouse
buttons, so that the left button becomes the right
and vice versa. Very small, uses only 168 bytes of
memory, vl.1, an update to vl.0 on disk 483.
Includes source in assembler.

AMIGA ANNUAL 70

DeafLab ■ Translates text into hand signs for the
deaf. Can be used to directly communicate with a
deaf person that has trouble reading text, or used as
a teaching tool for learning handsigning, vl.7,
shareware, binary only.

InputLock - Input handler to help Amiga users
who have cats other pets (or children) that mess
with the Amiga as soon as it is left for a second. It
installs an input handler which lets you lock the
keyboard and mouse by pressing a few buttons.
Very small, uses only 190 bytes of memory, vl.1,
an update to vl.O on disk 483. Includes source
in assembler.

PicSaver - Allows you to cut rectangular por¬
tions of any screen and store them on disk as IFF
ILBM files. Also allows easy saving of windows and
entire screens to disk, vl.1, an update to vl.O on
disk 483. Includes source in assembler.

PWKeys - Input handler that allows you to ma¬
nipulate windows and screens by pressing keys
on the keyboard. It currently lets you perform 25
different functions. Features include mouse blank¬
ing, screen blanking, mouse acceleration, ‘sun
mouse’, mouse/keyboard locking, and an interac¬
tive program to define hotkeys and other settings.
v2.0, an update to vl.O on disk 483. Includes
source in assembler.

StackWatch - Monitors the stack of any selected
task or process 30 times per second and reports the
allocated stack, maximum stack used, and current
stack used. vl.O, binary only.

vScreen - Have screens that are larger than the
actual display area of your monitor. These larger
‘virtual screens’ scroll when you move the mouse
off the edge of the visible section of the screen.
Currently does not work under AmigaDOS 2.0.
Includes source.

DISK 495

AnalytiCalc - The AnalytiCalc spreadsheet, di¬
rectly executable. This features operation with only
one window, many ‘3 dimensional’ sheet address¬
ing primitives, and optional execution from icons.
Two images are furnished, one for smaller and one
for large internal storage (though both have soft¬
ware virtual memory if needed). These images
operate OK under AmigaDOS 1.2, 1.3, and 2.0.
They include code allowing the spreadsheet to be
treated as a series of 'pages' so that a cell has a row,
column, and (optionally) page, and ranges can be in
depthtong pages as well as along rows or columns.
The mapping is flexible enough so that it can be
used to facilitate computing traces of matrices if
desired, as well as for more conventional use.
W25-03B, an update to vV24-01a on disk 328.
Includes source.

DISK 496

AvailMem - A small free memory counter that
continuously displays the amount of (and size of the
largest block of) free chip, fast, and total memory in
bytes (as opposed to K). vl.12, a WB 2.0-compat-
ible upgrade to vl.03 on disk 285. Includes
source.

DU - WB 2.0 aware DU program. Unlike other
Amiga DU programs, it will skip over links to files
and links to directories. Not only does this give a
more accurate representation of how much space
the contents of a particular directory are taking up,
it also prevents infinite loops when a directory has
a link to one of it’s ancestors, vl.02, includes
source.

GodsDemo - Demo of a popular European game.

MemMometer - Opens a narrow window and
graphically both displays your memory usage like a
gauge, and also detects changes in regions of
memory over time. Detected changes are
catagorised and displayed using color coded bands.
v2.20, an update to v2.10 on disk 350. It
accomodates AmigaDOS 2.0 and the Amiga 3000
32-bit memory addresses. Includes source.

Ruler - Ruler is a small tool used in the measure¬
ment and constrainment of text. Originally con¬
ceived as a tool for insuring that filenames didn’t
exceed the Amiga’s 30 character limit, it is never¬
theless useful in any situation when the number of
characters in a line of text needs to be counted.
v5.00, includes source.

AutoActivate - Activates the window under the

mousepointer when pressing any key. Requires
AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.08. Includes source in C.

Back&Front - Sends a window to back or brings
it to front with defined actions. For example put a
window in front by double- clicking in it and send it
back with the middle mouse button. Any keyboard
or mouse event can be trapped. Number of required
actions can be changed (double-click vs triple¬
click). Implemented as a commodity. Requires
AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.03. Includes source.

CenterScreen - Centers the frontmost screen
horizontally on hotkey. Useful if you normally oper¬
ate with overscan screens and an old program
opens a normal size screen. Requires AmigaDOS
2.0. vl.05. Includes source in C.

ChangeColors - Palette tool to change colors of
WB or any other public screen. The feature of this
tool is its font independance; it uses the font of the
screen on which it opens, instead of insisting on
topaz 8. Looks really great if you use any other font
than topaz on your WB screen, vl.03. Binary only.

LeftyMouse - Swaps the left and right
mousebutton for lefties. Commodity. Requires
AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.04. Includes source in C.

MouseAccel - Mouse accelerator, this one im¬
plemented as a commodity. If you find the built-in
accelerator too slow, try this one. Requires
AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.01. Includes source in C.

MouseBlanker - Blanks the mouse pointer after
a defined timeout or if you press any key. Commod¬
ity. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.13. Includes
source in C.

NewShellCX - An ‘open shell on hotkey’ com¬
modity (like PopCLl). Requires AmigaDOS 2.0.
vl.05. Includes source in C.

NLCalc - Calculator that uses the NL 3D look
(see NLDaemon on this disk). Opens on any screen
at the touch of a function key. v3.1.2, includes
source.

NLDaemon - Implements a 'New Look' in Amiga
programs, by using 3D-like gadgets. Converts stand¬
ard intuition window gadgets into 3D versions.
vl.4.3, includes source.

Reboot - Reboots your Amiga by calling exec’s
Cold- RebootO function, vl.02. Includes source
in C.

Request - Opens the DOS 2.0 autorequester
from script files. Title, text, gadgets and publicscreen
of the requester can be changed by command line
options. vl.OO. Includes source in C.

WindowShuffle - Activates and brings to front
next or previous window with hotkeys. Hotkeys can
be changed. Implemented as a commodity. Re¬
quires AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.05. Includes source in
C.

DISK 498

CPalette - Palette adjusting program that can be
brought up on just about any screen, including HAM
and EHB. VI.1, includes source in assembly.

FreeCopy - Unlike most copiers in that it does
not actually copy disks. It removes the protection so
disks can easily be backed up with almost any
program, and in some cases be installed on your
hard drive, vl.4, binary only.

Pauky - Demo of an English to German (and vice
versa) word translation trainer, vl.2, binary only.

TapeCover - Prints out those little paper inserts
for casette tape cases. It lets you enter the name of
the songs, and the title of each side. It should work
on any printer that can print in that semi-condensed
mode. vl.O, includes source in C.

WordSearch - Automated wordsearch genera¬
tor. Words orientations can be limited to any subset
of the eight primary directions and the puzzle can be
rotated or flipped. It has a spartan but functional
user interface highlighted by the req.library. The
system default font under WB 2.0 is supported for
the puzzle display window. vl.O, includes source
in C.

YatZ - 1 player Yatzee game. vl.O, includes
source in C.

ZoomDaemon - Adds a 'zoom' gadget to every
window that can be resized. Pressing this gadget
makes the window as large as possible or as small
as possible, or brings it back to its normal size.
v2.1.3, include source.

Diglib - Amiga device independent graphics
library for fortran applications. Enhanced and de¬
bugged version of a public domain library. This
library is required for part of the Matlab package,
also included on this disk. Update to disk 267.
Includes source in FORTRAN.

Matlab - A FORTRAN package (MATrix
LABoratory) by Argonne National Laboratories.
Provides comprehensive vector and tensor opera¬
tions in a package which may be programmed either
through a macro language or through execution of
script files. Supported functions include sin, cos,
tan, arcfunctions, upper triangular, lower triangu¬
lar, determinants, matrix multiplication, identity,
hilbert matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, matrix
roots, matrix products, inversion, and more. Amiga
specific features include WB startup, polar plots,
contour plots, enhanced plot buffer control, and
algorithmic plot display generation. Update to disk
267, with many bug fixes and code reorganisations.
Includes source in FORTRAN.

DI SK 500

Signal - 2 programs designed to make it easy to
write shell scripts that must be synchronised with
the operation of another, in order to avoid disk
thrashing for example. Includes source.

sWindows - Use the title of a window to specify
the screen on which the window will appear. This
provides a method of opening CON: and RAW:
windows on screens other than the WB, for exam¬
ple. Includes source.

wlconify - Program, and number of companion
utilities, that allow you to iconify windows on any
screen, including custom screens. Iconified win¬
dows become small icons on the bottom of the
screen, and they can be opened again by double¬
clicking them. Also allows any screen to become a
shared, WB-like screen, and gives you the ability to
create new screens specifically for this purpose.
Each window can have its own custom icon. There
is a programmers interface to allow programs to
control their own icons, v3.fi, includes source.

DISK 501

AddMenu - Add infinite number of menus to the
Tools menu on WB V2.0. Uses the correct WB.library
calls and allows updating from CLI or from within
the menu itself, meaning infinite number of func¬
tions. Binary only. Source available.

AutoCLI - A 'PopCU' type replacement that
works with WB 2.0 and fully compatible with A3000
& accelerator boards. Always retains the default
path and stack, and current directory. Can auto¬
matically open CU/SHELL windows to 1 pixel less
than screen size on opening. Other features include
an optional Function-key press with the qualifier to
execute an S:script file. V1.99d, binary only. Up¬
date to disk 424 with more enhancements.

Dominos - Game of dominos with 6-6 set. The
computer will provide quite a challenge to any
skilled player. vl.O, includes source in BASIC.

DOSWatch - Monitor for calls to AmigaDOS via
dos.library. Needs Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3. vl.O. HiSoft
Devpac Assembler VI .21 source included.

Genesis - Flexible and powerful program for
generating and rendering fractal landscapes. Origi¬
nal algorithms allow incorporating fractal rivers as
integral parts of the landscapes, with natural look¬
ing river valleys, gulleys, waterfalls, and lakes. A
number of parameters can be varied to modify the
landscape construction process and change the
character of the final landscape, there is also great
flexibility in the rendering. This is a demo of the
commercial product by the same name available
from Microillusions - some features disabled. Bi¬
nary only.

LList - A 'list' type program that displays type of
file. Many types of files included, and ability to
extract information from other file types for recog¬
nition. Standard Amiga Wildcards supported. Bi¬
nary only.

NewList - Powerful LIST replacement. Supports
many features including sorts, character filters,
case sensitivity, most options offered by LIST, date
construction, UNIX wildcards, and much more. Sort
routines are very fast and memory usage is mini¬
mal. v5.0, an update to v4.9 on disk 478. Binary
only.

NoClick - Stops drives clicking in KickStart
V2.0. Uses the correct method. Also included is a
patch for the kickstart files for a permanent no-click
for VI .3 and V2.0. Binary only and ASCII patch.

NoErrors - Simple to use, Gadget driven pro¬
gram. Its main function is to hide physical hard
errors from floppy disks or hard disks. Binary only.

DISK 502

AutoRev - Update program-headers run from
the CLI. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0. vl.lr. Source
included.

CELLS - Cellular automata experimentation lab,
based on the rules described in the Computer
Recreations column of the Scientific American,

January 1990. vl.3. Source included.

Eternal Rome - Historical strategy game, that in
spite of its high complexity is fast and easy to play.
Fully mouse controlled with a fine zoomable map of
the Roman empire (overscan and interlaced op¬
tions). The simulation delivers many historical
insights because of its accuracy (may be used for
educational purposes) and is a challenging and
entertaining game for two or more players (also
interesting for solitary studies). vl.O (tryware).
Binary only.

ReturnCode - 2 Short programs (LogRC and
GetRC) to allow the ‘Return Code’ left by a previous
program to be saved in a form suitable for further
(script) testing. GetRC allows the Return Code to
be set or viewed as desired. Assembly source

included.

Syslnfo - Reports interesting information about
the configuration of your machine, including some

speed comparisons with other configurations, ver¬
sions of the DOS software, etc. v2.22, an update
to vl.98 on disk 433. Binary only.

TrackDOS - Transfer of data between DOS,
memory and trackdisk.device. DOS means the data
contained within a file, memory means the data
contained anywhere within the memory map and
trackdisk.device means data stored on a disk not
accessable with DOS (eg. bootblocks special loader
disks etc.). The transfer of data between these
three areas is not normally easy or convenient.
TrackDos was written to overcome this, vl.08, an
update to 1.04 on disk 365. Binary only.

DISK 503

NoFragLib - A library containing 6 routines for
defragmenting memory. Extracted and updated
from the ‘tool.library’ on disk 475. Includes source.

PCQ - A freely redistributable, self compiling,
Pascal compiler. v1.2a, an update to vl.lc on
disk 339. It has many enhancements and
improvments. It is bundled with the latest versions
of A68K assembler, Blink linker, Debug, and Mon to
give a complete development environment. I ncludes
the compiler source and example programs.

DISK 504

PolySiliCon - Centralised Shell Command In¬
terface with visible scrollable History and mouse
access. Allows multiple shells to be controlled from
a single command/history window. Commands can
be re-executed with a mouse click. A group of
commands for a project may be loaded into the
history from a file for easy access. Compatible with
both 1.3 and 2.0 AmigaDOS. Shareware, binary
only.

RoadRoute - Determines from a user modifi¬
able data base, the shortest and fastest routes
between two cities. Includes a coarse and a de¬
tailed data set and a program, RoadScan, for
examining the contents of large RoadRoute data
files, vl.7. Includes source.

ShuttleCock - Animation from Eric Schwartz.
Eric wanted to see if he could still do an animation
that required less than 1 MB to run. Released May
1991.

View - Text displayer with many controls and
features including searches, file requestors, jump
to editor etc. vl.O, a re-write that requires
AmigaDOS 2.0. Source is included.

ViewDir - Read the current directory by com¬
manding VIEWDIR Displays a listing of the
specified directory with the total bytes at the bottom
and the description of the file types next to each file.
Also includes a ‘vstring’ to allow a DOS 2.0
Vcommand to read. v2.1 an update to disk 358.
Assembler source included.

DISK 505

TheDatingGame - Animation by Eric Schwartz.
Lasts nearly 4 minutes and requires 3 MB of RAM
to run. Flip the Frog has all kinds of trouble getting
to the house of his girlfriend, Clarisse Cat. This
cartoon animation follows the style of the short
theatrical cartoons of earlier days. Shareware.

DISK 506

NGTC - Release 2 of a trivia game based on 'Star
Trek: The Next Generation' TV series. Part 1 is on
this disk. Part 2 is on disk 507. You also need
Release One from disks 404 and 405. Created with
The Director' v2. Binary only.

DISK 507

LHCon - Converts Arc and Zoo formatted ar¬
chives to LHArc format. This will save precious disk
space. LHCon will do single files or entire directo¬
ries. It also has the capability to preserve the
comment field of the file for BBS programs that
require it and for the individuals who label their
programs in that manner, vl.01. Binary only.

NGTC - Release Two of a trivia game based on
'Star Trek: The Next Generation' TV series. Part 2
is on this disk. Part 1 is on disk 506. You also need
Release One from disks 404 and 405. Created with
'The Director' v2. Binary only.

DISK 508

DirWork - Directory utility that gets directories
off floppies in about half the normal time.
Configurable, vl.30, an update to vl.12 on disk
406. Shareware. Binary only.

HCC - Amiga port of Sozobon, Limited’s C
Compiler, v2.0. Can completely compile itself, sup¬
ports 32 bit ints, and optimiser can ‘registerise’
variables. Includes compiler, optimiser, tool for
creating interface code for Amiga system calls,
startup code, C library, include files, and library
routines that work with Motorola FFP format. Uses
assembler A68k, linker BLink, and provided run¬
time shared C library CClib.library. Includes source.

AMIGA ANNUAL 71

Fish Disks 400 - 550

DISK 509

Multi_Player - A music player that loads and
plays a large variety of the “tracker” type sound
modules. With an intuition interface, allows you to
load formats like Intuitracker, NoisePlayer,
Soundtracker, FutureComposer and 7 others in¬
cluding power- packed modules! Includes many
sample modules in several of these formats. Ml.2.
Includes source.

PCKeyMap - This program uses an Input Event
Handler to manipulate the backslash 0 and some
other useful keys in order to better emulate an XT I
AT keyboard on the German Amiga keyboard (which
is missing the backslash and some other keys).
vl.O. Includes source.

DISK 510

ATCopy - Copies files from the Amiga side of a
system equipped with a PC/AT bridgeboard, to the
PC side, using wildcards. Copies directly through
the shared memory. Supports CU and WB usage.
v2.22, an update to v2.2 on disk 458. With some
final bug fixes, this will be the last non-commercial
release. Shareware, binary only.

SYNWORKS - A graphics oriented environment
for design, training and test of neural networks. The
enclosed vis public domain and supports only three
network models. Not all options are available but
this vprovides the most important features to allow
users to decide if neural networks are an appropri¬
ate solution for their problems. Binary only.

VMK - Virus detector, this program no longer
detects specific viri, instead it concentrates on
checking system vectors and various parameters
that viri typically modify in order to survive reboots.
vl.O, an update to v.27 on disk 328 listed under
‘Harries’. Binary only.

DISK 511

Connex - A “connect-4” type game. v4.0, an
update to v3.8 on disk 493. Shareware, binary
only.

DirWork - Directory utility that gets directories
off floppies in about half the normal time.
Configurable options and buttons, as well as all the
usual features, vl.31, an update to vl.30 on disk
508. Shareware. Binary only.

Less - Text file reader, descended from Unix
‘Less’. Less has features found on no other Amiga
file reader; it can use pipes, accepts multiple
filenames, and has many convenient positioning
commands for forward and backward movement,
marking positions, etc. Runs on all Amigas, under
any screen resolution and font, and uses the full 8-
bit character set. Other improvements include
seaches using regular expressions, multiple file
selection from WB, and resident operation. v1.4Z,
an update to vl.3 on disk 149. Includes source.

OneKey - A1.3/2.0 compatible input handler for
people who can only press (or cause to be pressed)
one keyboard key at a time. OneKey gathers indi¬
vidually pressed qualifier keys (shift, alt, control,
etc) and then applies them to the next non-qualifier
key that is pressed. v36.11, includes source.

PCQ - An update to PCQ from disk 503. This is
only a partial distribution and includes just the
compiler main pass, the documentation, and a
ReadMe file. You need the distribution from disk
503 to use this material. v1.2b.

Solitaire - A shareware solitaire game, known
widely as Klondike. The rules can be varied, and
there are five different ways of working through the
deck. Also includes a palette requester to fine tune
the colors to your liking and a save-setup function
that remembers how all the options are set. vl.8,
binary only.

DISK 512

Csh - Replacement shell, similar to UN*X csh.
Main features include over 100 built in commands,
70 functions, new system variables, file name com¬
pletion, freely programmable command line edit¬
ing, file classes, auto cd, lazy cd, intuition menus
for the shell window, automatic RX-ing, local vari¬
ables, $(), statement blocks, high speed, plus much
more. v5.15, an update to v4.02 on disk 458.
Includes source.

Fliplt - Possibly the strongest Reversi/Othello
type game available. Shareware, binary only.

M2Pascal - A simple Modula-2 to Pascal trans¬
lator. You can write simple programs on your Amiga
using one of the available Modula-2 compilers, and
then use this translator to generate Pascal source
for export to other systems with Pascal compilers.
vl.O, includes source in Modula-2.

Solitaire - Solitaire game. Shareware.

DISK 513

DKBTrace - Raytrace program that takes a text
description of a 3D scene and renders it to a 24-bit
file which may be converted to HAM or viewed on

an 24-bit card. The program features sophisticated
textures, constructive solid geometry, and various
graphics primitives such as quadrics (cones, cylin¬
ders, etc.), spheres, planes, triangles, smooth tri¬
angles, and quartics (donuts, etc.) Also included
are many sample data files and many utilities for
creating new data files and for post-processing the
output files. Source and executables are included.
Because of its size, the distribution has been split
onto two disks. Disk 513 contains the raytracer and
disk 514 contains the utilities. v2.12, an update to
v2.0 on disk 397.

NewList - A powerful LIST command. Supports
many features including sorts, character filters,
case sensitivity, most options offered by LIST, date
construction, UNIX wildcards, and much more. Sort
routines are very fast and memory usage is mini¬
mal. v5.0a, an update to v5.0 on disk 501. New
features include recursion, hunt mode, custom for¬
matting, multiple paths, paging, and much much
more. Binary only.

DISK 514

DKBTrace - Raytrace program that takes a text
description of a 3D scene and renders it to a 24-bit
file which may be converted to HAM or viewed on
an 24-bit card. The program features sophisticated
textures, constructive solid geometry, and various
graphics primitives such as quadrics (cones, cylin¬
ders, etc.), spheres, planes, triangles, smooth tri¬
angles, and quartics (donuts, etc.) Also included
are many sample data files and many utilities for
creating new data files and for post-processing the
output files. Source and executables are included.
Because of its size, the distribution has been split
onto two disks. Disk 513 contains the raytracer and
disk 514 contains the utilities. v2.12, an update to
v2.0 on disk 397.

GearCalc - A bicycle gear ratio calculator. v2.0,
binary only.

S220to8SVX - Converts sound samples from a
Roland S-220/S-10/MKS-100 to 8SVX IFF 8-bit
samples, vl.4, an update to vl.O on disk 286.
New features include volume adjust and start / end
point setting. Includes source in assembler.

TLog - An intuition based program that records
statistics to monitor athletic training progress. Main¬
tains a daily record of distance, time, heart rate,
weight and temperature. Links a text file with the
record for a free form diary. The AREXX commands
provide the basis for generating custom reports
from the data base. Sample script allows TLog to
automatically get to a scheduler to post reminders
of upcoming events. vl.O, shareware binary only.

DISK 515

CheckBook - Checkbook Accountant is a
checkbook recording, balancing, budgeting, and
analysing program. Intended to be used as a com¬
panion to a checkbook register and not as a replace¬
ment, this program offers a simple way of balancing
checkbooks, tracking bank transactions, and re¬
cording and analysing budgeted transactions. v2.0,
an update to v0.9 on disk 425. Some of the new
features include: Sort, Move, Duplicate, Program
Prefs, Reoccurring Transaction Groups, Statistics,
and Search & Replace. AmigaDOS 1.3 or Release
2 required. Binary only.

D1 lOEdDemo - Demo of an editor for Roland D-
110. Bulk dump is available. Edited parameters are
not submitted to Roland D-110.

PP - Powerpacker patcher is a small tool that
patches the DOS library so that PowerPacker
datafiles will start acting as if they were ‘normal’
files. Sample use of PP would be to crunch all your
.info files. They will still retain their functionality as
long as PP is installed, and WB will never know the
difference. Icons are useful, but take up a lot of
valuable disk space. You may also use any text
viewer or editor you desire directly on Powerpacker
files! vl.O, shareware, includes source.

CCOPTS - Lets you easily deal with the MANX
‘CCOPTS’ environment variable. You can store
settings to disk. Has a complete intuition interface.
vl.OO, binary only.

DISK 516

Enigma - An interactive animation object that
can be viewed as a puzzle or a game object. The
Enigma! Machine can be programed by the user to
generate text. Part of the challenge is to discover
how to program it to generate meaningful output.
vl.OO, binary only.

Loom - Simulation of an eight harness loom.
Supports 15 colors for warp and weft threads.
Scalable display. Patterns created can be printed in
draft format or saved as IFF files, vl.00, binary
only.

PhoneGram - Generates text from phone num¬
bers. Attempts to find all three and four letter words
encoded by any phone number. Graphic keypad

display with sound, vl.01, binary only.

Quotes - Quotes is a pseudo-random quote
generator. It will scan a specified file of quotes, pick
one at random, and display it. Great for startup-
sequences. CU-only. vl.O, includes source.

RexxView - Monitors messages sent to the
REXX port. Messages are described by task, action
code and modifiers, and the contents of argO slot is
displayed. CLI utility to monitor the REXX IPC hub
for Arexx programmers and interfacers, vl.01,
includes JForth source.

XI - Demo of a single bit-plane cel animation
generator. Uses an onion-skin display to rough in an
animation sequence. Has a large ARexx command
set, multiple precision bezier curves and splines,
scalable and rotatable polygons, brush support with
blitter logic, turtle graphics and macro key defini¬
tions. Requires req.library (Fox/Dawson). Non¬
saving demo version, binary only.

DISK 517

Aequipot - Renders multicolor pictures using an
algorithm based on electrostatic effects. Renders in
low-res, in highres, and in two speed/quality modes.
Includes both PAL and NTSC versions, English and
German docs, vl.15, an update to vl.06 on disk
474. Now supports saving pictures in IFF-ILBM
format and animation rendering via script files.
Freeware, includes source in PCQ.

AmiBack - Demo of a new backup utility. Fea¬
tures include backup to any AmigaDOS compatible
device (such as floppies, removable hard disks,
fixed media hard disk, and tape drives), no copy
protection, configuration files, complete backups,
incremental backups, selective backups, file exclu¬
sion filter, setting of archive bit, etc. Demo vdoes
not have restore, compare, or scheduler, vl.04, an
update to vl.03 on disk 493. Binary only.

CWToy - Like- Say or SpeechToy that allows
your Amiga to communicate in International Morse
Code. A lot of nice features for code practice or with
a simple hardware interface even useful as a key¬
board program for your transmitter. vl.O, includes
source in C.

Hex - A file-based binary file editor with lots of
features. vl.O, shareware, binary only.

RussianFonts - Russian Fonts ranging from 13
points to 31 points.

Spliner - A spline screen blanker commodity,
derived from the spline code extracted from Tom
Rokicki’s Mackie and encapsulated into a standard
AmigaDOS 2.0 commodity. Binary only.

DISK-51.8

AmiDock - Version of the NeXT’s Dock facility.
It will open up a small window on your WB full of
little IFF brushes. Each brush represents an appli¬
cation, like an ICON, but it’s a brush. Click on the
brush and your application will start, vl.3, an
update to vl.2.4 on disk 474. Shareware, binary
only.

Lister - Program to display information about
files in various types of archives, such as arc, cpio,
lharc, tar, zip, and zoo. vl.O, includes source.

Post - An excellent PostScript interpreter which
implements the full Adobe language. Supports type
1 and type 3 fonts, screen output, file output, and
printer output. Requires Arp library V39+ and
ConMan VI.3+. vl.6, an update to vl.5 on disk
468. Includes source in C.

DISK 519

AVLSort - A text file sort program, based on a
general purpose AVL package by Mark Mallett
(included). Handles as many lines as will fit in
memory. Includes source.

ChkFrag - Reports on the extent of file fragmen¬
tation in any specified directory tree. Binary only.

FifoLib - FIFO: is like PIPE: but is based on
fifo.library rather than its own implementation.
Fifo.library is a general fifo library implementation
that supports named fifos, writing to a fifo from a
hardware exception, multiple readers on a fifo with
each getting the same data stream, efficient read¬
ing, and automatic or manual flow control. Pro¬
grams that require non-blocking 10 can access one
side of a FIFO: connection via the fifo.library in¬
stead of the FIFO: device. v3.1, an update to v2
on disk 448. Includes some source.

OakLisp - A straight port of the OAKUSP sys¬
tem to the Amiga. OAKLISP is a Scheme-like USP
with an object-oriented base. An R3RS Scheme
environment is included in the package. Because of
its size, the distribution is made on two disks, 519
and 520. Both disks are required. Source is in¬
cluded.

Optimizer - A disk optimiser that works on floppy
disks, hard disks, and ram disks. It is designed to
provide safe optimisation, moving only one block at
a time. vl.O, freeware, binary only.

DISK 520

lOBoard - Full plans for a public domain hard¬
ware project which adds two parallel ports and two
serial ports to an Amiga 500,1000, or 2000, for less
than $100, with the capability to upgrade to four
ports of each type at any time. Includes serial and
parallel drivers with source code. v2.10.

OakLisp - A straight port of the OAKLISP sys¬
tem to the Amiga. OAKLISP is a Scheme-like USP
with an object-oriented base. An R3RS Scheme
environment is included in the package. Because of
its size, the distribution is made on two disks, 519
and 520. Both disks are required. Source is in¬
cluded.

DISK 521

A68k - A 68000 assembler originally written in
Modula-2 in 1985 and converted to C by Charlie
Gibb in 1987. Has been converted to accept
metacomco-compatible assembler source code and
to generate Amiga objects. v2.71, an update to
v2.61 on disk 314. Include source.

BatchMaster - Makes creation of interactive
command scripts a lot easier. It works as com¬
mands ASK, IF and SKIP together, only better. You
can have up to four options to skip to, and select
them with a mouse, as BatchMaster has an Intuition
interface, vl.27. Requires arp.library. Binary
only.

CheckPrt - Checks the presence of a parallel
printer from within a script file. Update of disk 479.
Now also includes two small tools to test the state
of some lines of the printer port, to make it easier to
find the source of printer problems. Binary only.

K1 - Editor for the Kawai K1-II synthesiser.
Includes a bankloader for single-patches and multi¬
patches, a single- patch editor, a multi-patch editor,
and support for the effect-session and K1 control¬
lers. v5.1, an update to v4.8 on disk 481. Binary
only.

Landscape - CAD program to aid in designing
garden layouts. First the plan is laid out, placing
lawns, paths, plants, etc., and the program then
draws a ‘3D’ picture of what the garden might look
like in real life, from any viewpoint. vl.O, binary
only.

SynthSong - A song created using the freely-
distributable program MED v3.00. Although quite
small (63k) on disk, this one expands in memory
once loaded, lasting almost 65 minutes. Player
program included.

T3E - Converts any text file to an executable.
The resulting program will only have a minimum of
bytes appended (94 bytes for hunk structure and
display-program). The text file is not limited by the
size. Freeware, with source in C.

DISK 522

MAK - Mandelbrot Adventure Kit - Mandelbrot
generator with full 'C' source code.

DISK 523

BMake - GNU Make subset. Includes pattern
rules, conditionals, “include”, function calls, etc.

vl.4, with source.

Conquest - Lore of Conquest is a war game
similar in concept to the board game Risk, vl.5, an
update to vl.3 on disk 459. Binary only,
shareware.

PSGraph - Graphing program with plot previews
and encapsulated postscript output. vl.O, binary
only.

ScreenJaeger - Screen capture program that
works by scanning through memory, allowing you to
grab screens from programs that don’t multitask,
and save them as IFF files. Features include an
Intuition interface, multiple bitplanes, support of all
Amiga display modes and resolutions, CHIP and
FAST memory, overscan, and both NTSC and
PAL vl.O, includes full C source.

SerLib - Shared library providing easy access to
any serial device. Allows both synchronous and
asynchronous access to the port. With support code
for Lattice, Manx and Oberon. Includes examples in
both C and Oberon (with source) and docs in ASCII,
DVI, and PostScript. Shareware.

DISK 524

Kamin - Various interpreters from the book
‘Programming Languages, An Interpreter-Based
Approach’, by Samuel N. Kamin. This distribution
includes lisp, apl, scheme, sasl, clu, prolog, and
Smalltalk interpreters, automatically translated from
Pascal to C using p2c. Includes C and Pascal
source.

Snap - Tool for clipping text or graphics from the
screen, using the clipboard device. Snap finds out
character coordinates automatically, handles dif¬
ferent fonts, keymaps, accented characters and
more, vl.62, an update to vl.4 on disk 326.
Includes source.

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TAPDemo - Tumble Axis Processor is a 'Sculpt'
utility with several functions, including automati¬
cally aligning a path’s tumble axes so that an object
following that path will always face the direction of
travel, and production of an easy to read data list
containing the location of each node and the orien¬
tation of each of its tumble axes. Fully functional
except that it will not function on paths with more
than 15 nodes. Binary only.

DISK 525

CrcLists - Complete CRC check files for disks
401-520 using the brik program. These were made
directly from my master disks. Along with the crc
lists from disk 401, these lists will allow you to
check all of the disks in the library to make sure they
are correct and complete.

DumpHarpoon - Program that dumps the .DAT
data files for the game HARPOON.

MinixDemo - Demo of Minix 1.5, an operating
system very similar to UNIX. Full version of minix
comes with source code for the kernel and most of
the utilities. Binary only.

SIOD - Small scheme interpreter (Scheme In
One Defun) which can be used for calculations or
included as a command interpreter or extension/
macro language in other applications. v2.4. In¬
cludes source.

DISK 526

Data Easy - Data base program - includes a
phone dialer, speech output, a simple screen editor
for making and modifying the database definitions,
a screen print function, form letter printing, sorting,
searching, and two small sample databases, vl.3,
an update to v 1.1 on disk 417. Binary only.

GNUPIot - An interactive function and data
plotting program which supports a great number of
output devices. Includes extensive on-line help.
v2.0, patch level 2. Includes full source along with
diffs and patch program to generate Amiga version.

DISK 527

Arq - Replaces the standard system requesters
with nice animated requesters which you can also
attach different sounds to. Works under AmigaDOS
1.3 or 2.0 to give all the normal system requesters
a nice new look, vl.61, binary only.

Lister - Program to display information about
files in various types of archives, such as arc, cpio,
lharc, tar, zip, and zoo. vl.01, an update to vl.O
on disk 518. Includes source.

MightyMouse - A very small screen blanker,
mouse accelerator, mouse blanker, hot key, etc.
vl.05, binary only.

PicBase - Organise and manage all IFF images
and brushes stored on disk. Displays a miniature
monochrome (8 or 16 level) image of each file, with
information such as: pathname, creation date, file
size, image size and depth, display mode, and file
note. The images are displayed four at a time and
can be scrolled in realtime, manually or automati¬
cally sorted, presented as a slideshow, and more.
v0.36, shareware, binary only.

SRegExp - Runtime library of routines for doing
wildcard pattern matching and wildcard path match¬
ing. It accepts a slight extension of the AmigaDOS
wildcard syntax, including a ‘not’ operator and
character sets, vll.1, includes source.

ToolManager - Adds programs (either WB or
CU) to the tools menu of the 2.x WB. Requires WB
2.0. vl.4, an update to vl.3 on disk 476. In¬
cludes source.

Zoo - File archiver, much like 'arc' in concept,
but different in implementation and user interface
details. 2.10, an update to v2.00 on disk 164.
Binary only.

DISK 528

AmiOmega - Port of the Omega game. Similar
to Hack or Rogue. There is a city, several towns, a
wilderness, lots of dungeons, a multitude of mon¬
sters, lots of spells, magic items, etc. There are
several quests to complete, vl.5, a different port
than vl.O on disk 320. Binary only.

CpuBlit - CpuBlit replaces the system BltBitMap
routine with a vthat uses your 68020/68030 when it
is worthwhile to do so. This results in text scrolling
twice as fast as usual, and in addition, the color
flicker effect normally present when scrolling
multicolor text is removed. vl.O, includes source.

FontConv - Converts Macintosh Postscript type
1 and type 3 fonts to the IBM Postscript type 1 and
type 3 format. Also converts Macintosh bitmap
screen fonts to the Adobe binary format (abf). vl.2,
binary only.

menu item or escape key to abort selection. Works
with AmigaDOS 2.0 mouse accelerator and has
option to blank Intuition’s pointer, vl.05, an update
to vl.03 on disk 470. Includes assembly source.

SimSmart - Prints the program source code of
almost any language, so that (for example) the
keywords are emboldened and underlined, and the
comments are italicised. These features are adjust¬
able by the user, to suit individual taste. Tabbing
also is adjustable, to harmonise with the nesting
depth of a particular program. Output may be either
on the printer, the screen, or to another file. SimSmart
may easily be extended by the user to deal with
extra languages. v2.10, shareware, binary only.

DISK 529

ClockDJ - Combines a clock, mouse accelera¬
tor, screen blanker, window manipulator, function
keys, and macros into a single program, written in
assembly language for maximum efficiency. In¬
cludes an ARexx port. v5.02, an update to v4.07
on disk 293. Binary only.

MonkeyDemo - Demo of the LucasFilm game
The Secret of Monkey Island’. Installable on a hard
disk and multitasks as well. Binary only.

TownMaze - Designs a town-shaped maze like
the town 'Bard’s Tale I' uses, vl.2, includes source.

DISK 530

DeckBrowser - Player for unbound CanDo
decks, vl.5, binary only.

Dme - vl.45 Simple WYSIWYG text editor
designed for programmers. Not a WYSIWYG word
processor in the traditional sense. Features include
arbitrary key mapping, fast scrolling, title-line sta¬
tistics multiple windows, and ability to iconify win¬
dows. Update to vl.42 on disk 441, includes
source.

TurboTitle - For subtitling Japanese animation
films and creating a standard Amiga subtitle format.

v0.80, an update to v0.71 on disk424. Shareware,
binary only.

DISK 531

CaligariDemo - Demo of Caligari 2.0. Requires
a 68020/68030 and a 68881/68882. Binary only.

DisDF - Disables DF0-DF3 - stops empty drive
clicking by putting trackdisk.device tasks in a re¬
moved state. vl.O, includes source.

FileSearch - Searches an AmigaDOS volume
for a specified file, using a filename pattern. Intui¬
tion interface, vl.5, binary only, WB2.0 only.

Graffiti - Demo of art program, with a feature set
somewhat less than DPaint but more than many
other such programs. Has a few special functions
included like autoscrolling, converting screens to
other resolutions, changing RGB values of the
whole screen, fast autoscrolling magnifier, etc.
vl.01, binary only.

Populous - KeysCode words and options de¬
scriptions for all 495 worlds of (game) Populous
(TM Electronic Arts and Bullfrog Productions).

DISK 532

BootPic - Install nearly any IFF picture that you
like in place of the WB hand that appears after a
reset, vl.1, an update to vl.O on disk 484.
Intuition interface. Binary only.

Data Plot - Plots data and algebraic functions in
2D. User clicks on an option screen to select
various options, such as type of marker, log or
linear axis, auto vs manual scaling, grid lines. The
macro language makes similar, repetitive plots
easy to do. Data points can be transformed by an
algebraic function prior to plotting. A macro can be
automatically executed upon start-up. Plots in any
resolution from 320x200 to 640x400. Plots can be
saved as macro commands and IFF ILBM files.
v2.1, a significant upgrade to vl.O on disk 121.
Shareware, binary only.

SCSIMounter - Automated partition mounter
especially suited for removable media SCSI drives.
Automatically scans Rigid Disk Block of the drives
and presents the user with a partition selector
which allows the individual selection of the parti¬
tions to mount. Requires Kickstart 2.0. Binary only.

SCSIPrefs - Preferences editor for A3000. Al¬
lows you to change the bits that control some
parameters of the embedded SCSI host adaptor.
Requires Kickstart 2.0. Binary only.

TrainerMaker - Modify money, number of lives,
or high scores of some games. The game to be
modified must be capable of multitasking. v0.8,
binary only.

DISK 533

BootGen - Creates a boot-menu. Enter the
name of ten programs and the program will do the
rest. When you boot the disk a menu will appear
where you can choose one of ten program names,
which automatically will be loaded. v3.4, binary

only.

Conquest - ‘Lore of Conquest’ is a war game
similar in concept to the board game Risk, vl.6, an
update to vl.5 on disk 52?. Includes enhanced
galaxy map, instant replay option, timed turns,
symmetrical universe, and more. Binary only,
shareware.

Convert - Converts an object file to a C source
which can be inserted with ‘//include’ in your own
programs. vl.O, includes source.

DosManager - Copy, delete, move, view, show
as pictures, play samples, rename, etc, files with
this program. It is also possible to program a
personal command with DosManager. vl.O,
shareware, binary only.

Icons - A bunch of 8-color icons for systems
running AmigaDOS 2.0.

OctaMED - Demo Player program and sample
songs for OctaMED, a special version of MED that
can play 8 tracks at once on a standard Amiga
without extra hardware. The sound quality is not as
high as with 4-channel sound but is good enough for
many purposes. Binary only.

VTest - Simple example how to test if the AMIGA
is infected by a Virus. It simply checks some vectors
in the Exec Base structure and some library rou¬
tines like DolO. vl.O, includes source.

DISK 534

Term - Comms program written for AmigaDOS
release 2.x (Kickstart 37.74 and WB 37.33 or higher
required, Kickstart 37.175 and WB 37.52 recom¬
mended). Features include total configurability, full
ARexx control, Xpr transfer support, filetype iden¬
tification after download, cut & paste/point-and-
click on screen, auto up and download, scrollable
review buffer of unlimited size, solid and fully-
featured VT100/VT220/ANSI emulation, optional
fast atomic terminal emulation, hotkey support,
powerful phonebook and dialing functions, ability to
save and print the contents of the screen as IFF-
ILBM or ASCII file, full overscan and screen reso¬
lution support (new ECS screen modes included),
asynchronous operation and a lot more. Comes
with six Xpr-transfer libraries (ascii, jmodem, kermit,
quickb. xmodem & zmodem) and documentation.
v1.8a and also includes the full 'C' and assembly
source code.

DISK 535

Accent - Universal accented character converter
for Amiga, IBM-PC, Macintosh, and C64 files writ¬
ten in most West European languages (Danish,
Finnish, French, German, Italian, Islandic, Norwe¬
gian, Spanish, Swedish, and more. Works with
either ASCII or Word Perfect files. Major update
to vl.5 on disk 454 (where it was called Vortex).
New features include a graphical user interface,
simple file reader, and copy option. Binary only.

ArcL - Lists your ZOO, ARC and LZH Archives
with automatic type detection. Includes german
vand documentation. vl.O, binary only.

BizCalc - A do-it-all user friendly loan calculator
that calculates weekly and biweekly loans. Can
generate amortisation tables to the screen, to the
printer, or to a file. Uses menus, bottons, or key¬
board commands, and iconifies. Has six decimal
precision option and more, vl.2, an update to vl. 1
on disk 493. Binary only.

Flat - A filing system handler which implements
block-mapped filing devices such as available un¬
der Unix. Read and write calls are mapped to low-
level system 10 operations which allow to treat
devices such as dfO:, dhO:, rad:, etc. as big data
files. These ‘virtual’ files can be copied, read and
written just like any standard AmigaDOS file. It is
even possible to copy a whole disk with the CU
‘Copy’ command or to archive disks with LhArc and
the like. Written as a supplement for the Amiga ‘tar’
program, vl.3, includes source in ‘C’.

Format - A replacement for the WB 2.x ‘Format’
command with many additional features and a basic
gadtools interface. Can be made resident and sports
a number of additional command line options. Also
included is a code fragment which will correctly
initialise data media of any size (floppy disks or
hard disk partitions) which works both under
Kickstart 1.2/1.3 and 2.x. vl.1, includes source in
‘C’ and assembly language. AmigaDOS 2.x re¬
quired.

FracBlank - A commodities screen blanker writ¬
ten for AmigaDOS release 2.x. When running will
blank the screen and start to draw real plane
fractals such as described in the September 1986
issue of Scientific American. The resulting images
may remind you of spiders’ webs, lace or even the
Chladnian patterns formed by grams of sand strewn
across a vibrating surface, vl.4, includes source in
‘C’ and assembly language. AmigaDOS 2.x re¬
quired.

Icon - A tool which patches WB 2.x online to

supply default icons for about 45 different file types
ranging from LhArc archives to object code files.
Enhances the ‘Show All Files’ option of WB which
by default only knows two types of file icons: Tool
and Project. If enabled scans all files in a directory
which do not have an icon file supplied and tries to
determine their file types. When done, tricks WB
into believing that there are proper icons for these
files in the directory. Includes source in ‘C’ and
assembly language. AmigaDOS 2.x required.

KeyMacro - A keyboard macro program,
configurable via a text file, that also supports hotkey
program execution. You can map up to eight func¬
tions to each key, including keys such as cursor
keys, the return key, etc. vl. 12 with a number bug
fixes and enhancements, an update to vl .8 on disk
436. Includes source in ‘C’ and assembly language.

SetBatt - A tool to set the configuration informa¬
tion saved in the nonvolatile ram of the A3000 clock
chip. Allows you to adjust the SCSI select timeout
and other system settings. Includes source in ‘C’
and assembly language. AmigaDOS 2.x required.

TermLite - A tiny, almost brain dead telecommu¬
nications program written for AmigaDOS release
2.x. Can be made resident, supports cut & paste
from console window, written as a simple interface
to the serial/parallel device driver. vl.O, includes
source in ‘C’. AmigaDOS 2.x required.

DISK 536

Chemesthetics - Draws molecules using the
calotte model. This means that atoms are drawn as
bowls. Intuition user interface, can save pictures as
IFF files, and has many example files. v2.06, an
update to v2.00 on disk 427. Includes source in
C.

Rev - A small program for a makefile or an
Imkfile, to update revision numbers after each
successful compile process. (Not related to but
much more powerful than the increv program on
disk 161 by Bryan Ford.) vl.03, includes source
in C.

PBIanker - An enhanced WB 2.0 commodity,
replacing ‘Blanker’. Can blank screen and mouse
pointer separately. v37.04. Needs Kickstart 37.xx.
Binary only.

WFile - Small but useful tool to interchange
ASCII files between different operating systems.
Converts foreign symbols and adapts linefeed
codes. Can also be used to expand tabs to multiple
spaces or vice versa. It has builtin templates for
interchange between the Amiga, MS-DOS and
UNIX. Profiles can be used for common adaptions.
vl.11, includes source in C.

DISK 537

AntiBorder - CU window frame remover. Turns
your CU window into the largest possible borderless
window that can be displayed on the WB screen.
I.E. Creates a 80 x 32 character CU window for
standard PAL Amigas. vl.O, includes assembly
source.

BootGames - Two tiny games which fit on the
bootblocks of a boot disk. BootOut is a Breakout
style game and Squash is a squash type game (just
like on those old TV games). BootOut V5.X and
Squash v4.3. Includes assembly source.

CHIP8 - Programming language popularised by
the RCA COSMAC VIP, DREAM 6800, and ETI-
660 hobby computers. It is one step up from ma¬
chine code (actual hex codes), yet allows the crea¬
tion of some very simple, very small games, vl.1,
includes assembly source and some demo
games.

Cross - Creates crossword puzzles. Has a mes¬
sage data file to allow easy translation into almost
any human language, with English and German
currently supported. v4.1, an update to v3.3 on
disk 464. Major new features are several new
printer drivers including ‘generic’ and ‘LaTeX’, and
many minor improvements. Includes source in
M2Amiga Modula-2.

FO - Fast Optimiser is a new optimiser for
AmigaDOS disks. It can optimise one disk in less
than 2 min, 30 sec. FO supports WB or CU modes
and allows you to use unformatted disks as the
destination. At least 1 Mb memory required. vl.O.
Includes some source in C.

PaulCopy - Single drive disk copier for Amigas
with 1 Meg of RAM. Copies the source disk com¬
pletely into memory in one go. Will also work with
512K Amigas, yet will require multiple disk swaps.
VII, includes assembly source.

PBIanker - An ultra tiny Screen-Blanker/ Mouse-
Blanker / Mouse - Accelerator thingy. Is about 700
bytes and doesn’t have to be RUN. vl.3, includes
assembly source.

SMUSMIDI - Converts SMUS Files output by
Electronic Art’s Deluxe Music Construction Set into
standard MIDI files that can be read by modern
sequencing software. vl.O, includes sample data

AMIGA ANNUAL 73

Fish Disks 400-550

files and source in C.

ZShell - Tiny (13Kb) CU shell modelled along
the lines of CSH, with over 40 internal commands.
Some of its features include command line editing,
history buffer, aliases, function key aliases, reverse
polish calculator, multiple commands on one line,
loops, If-Else-Endif constructs etc. vl.30 and in¬
cludes assembly source.

DISK 538

BCBMusic - Second set of original music in the
BCBmusic series. This set includes the songs ’Still
Waiting', 'Transpose', and 'Trilogy'. Like the first set
(on disk 428), no player program is required since
it is actually compiled in with the song. These new
songs include a new equaliser-style graphic display
which can be toggled on and off. WB2.0 compatible,
binary only.

MatLabPatch - Patches for both Matlab and
Diglib on disk 499. The version of Diglib compiled
for 68000 machines has some incorrectly compiled
modules (compiled for 68020) and therefore causes
crashes on 68000 machines. The Plot.sub module
compiled for 68000 machines in the Matlab archive
was linked using the incorrect Diglib and does not
run on 68000 machines. Provides correctly com¬
piled replacements for both those files.

NGTC - Release Two, Revision 1, of a trivia
game based on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’
TV series. This is a bug fix containing a new game
module. You also need Release Two from disks 506
and 507, and Release One from disks 404 and 405.
Created with The Director V2. Binary only.

DISK 539

DT - A ‘DiskTest’ utility for floppy disks, la
Norton Utilities, vl.12, includes source (SAS-C).

PF - A CU/WB interface to control an Hewlett-
Packard DeskJet 500 printer, enabling the user to
select an internal font and to print one or more files,
or to initialise the printer. v2.10, includes source
(SAS-C).

RPN - An emulation of an Hewlett-Packard
pocket computer on your screen, vl.00, includes
source (SAS-C).

SimpleRexx - A set of routines that handle the
low level ARexx work for you in such a way as to
have your application work with or without ARexx
on the target system. The goal is to make adding at
least the minimum level of ARexx support to an
application a trivial task. Includes source.

VLTimer - A clock/timer window that sticks on
the VLT screen (or on the WB if VLT is not running
or opened on the WB) to check connection times
(and costs), vl.02, includes source (SAS-C).

DISK 540

Browser - A 'Programmer's Workbench'. Move,
copy, rename, and delete files & directories from a
CU environment. Also provides a method to ex¬
ecute either WB or CU programs by double-clicking
them or by selecting them from a ParM like Menu
with lots of arguments. A Browser 1.6 replacement,
does everything Browser 1.6 does and a lot more.
vl.0, includes source in C.

CUExe - An Xlcon style program which uses
parm.library. It allows you to execute a script
starting from WB and is completely CU compatible,
because it is a CU. Can use a real script file or take
commands in its own TOOLTYPES. Includes source
in C. vl.0.

ParM - Parameterable Menu. Build menus to run
whatever program you have on a disk. ParM can run
programs either in WB or CU mode. This is an
alternative to MyMenu which can run only when WB
is loaded. ParM can have it’s own little window, can
attach menus to the CU window you are running it
from, or to the WB menus, just like MyMenu. v3.00,
an update to v2.5r on disk 419. Includes source
in C.

PatchReq - A patch for system requesters and
arp file requester. Replace arp file requester with
the great req.library file requester. Patches
AutoRequest() for requesters to appear under the
mouse and more. vl.4. Includes source in C.

Req - Enhanced version of the interface to
req.library for Aztec C 5.0. Pragmas supplied and
glues put in a library rather than in an object file.
Includes source in asm. vl.1.

SANA - Release 2 of the Standard Amiga Net¬
work Architecture device driver specification. This
is a specification for the device driver level only.

SetColors - Palette replacement program - 3k.
Can save and load color files, and update prefer¬
ences. Update to disk 419. Includes source in C.

WBRun - A 'RunBack' style program which use

parm.library. Runs programs in WB mode from any
CU. Programs are fully detached. The program you
run must support WB startup. Not related to WBRun
on disk 43. Includes source in C.

DISK 541

4D - Two programs for visualising four - dimen¬
sional objects. The Tesseract program displays the
three - dimensional projects of a hyper - cube
(tesseract), a hyper-octahedron or a hyper - tetra¬
hedron. These can be rotated in three and four
dimensions. The 4D Navigator program moves you
through the three - dimensional surface of a four -
dimensional sphere, vl.01 for both. Binary only.
Source available from author.

GlFMachine - Converts CompuServe GIF im¬
age files into IFF SHAM and 24bit ILBMs. It offers
a number of extra options like dithering, horizontal
and vertical flip, as well as automatic border re¬
moval. Requires KickStart v2.0 or greater to run.
V2.137, an update to v2.116 on disk 458. In¬
cludes source.

Uamatron - A fast action, arcade style game,
guaranteed to have your FILE button finger dan¬
gling off at the tendons. Hours of fun for you,
blowing away horde after horde of alien fiends.
Shareware, binary only.

MineClearer - Version of the Minesweeper game
under Windows 3.0. You are the captain of a ship
and you have to dear the sea from mines. Shareware.
vl.Oc, binary only.

Steal - Grabs parts out of a display. It is used to
grab parts from Intuition’s structures, such as gadg¬
ets, menues, and screens, vl.1, includes source.

Thinkamania - Playable demo of a game like the
legendary memory game. Includes superb hires
graphics and sound effects. v2.1, binary only.

DISK 542

BootX - Virus killer. BootX can check the
bootblock of a disk, check memory for any resident
viruses, and scan a disk for link viruses. It can load
bootblock libraries for you to write on your disks as
an alternative for the boring DOS install bootblock.
It can load brain files so you can add any new
bootblocks that BootX does not yet recognise.
BootX is written completely in assembly for maxi¬
mum speed and minimum size. Fully supports
AmigaDOS 2.0. v3.80d, an update to v3.40 on
disk 420. Binary only.

ChemniMaTe - Makes animations of chemical
reactions with the purpose of recording it on a video
tape. It is a programming language, containing
expressions, nested loops, etc. It can handle mol¬
ecules with in total up to 64 atoms, and lines
between atoms. Works correctly under PAL. v0.8,
examples and source (in DICE C) included.

PowerSnap - Use the mouse to mark characters
anywhere on the screen, and then paste them
somewhere else, such as in another CU or in a
string gadget. Checks what font is used in the
window you snap from and will look for the position
of the characters automatically. Recognises all non
proportional fonts of up to 24 pixels wide and of any
height. Works with AmigaDOS 2.0 in both shell and
WB environments, vl.1, an update to vl.0 on
disk 467. Binary only.

PP Powerpacker - Patcher is a small tool that
patches the DOS library so that PowerPacker
datafiles will start acting as if they were ‘normal’
files. Sample use of PP would be to crunch all ‘.info’
files. The icons will retain their functionality as long
as PP is installed, and WB will never know the
difference. Icons are useful, but take up a lot of
valuable disk space. You may also use any text
viewer, editor or IFF tool (or anything!) you desire
directly on Powerpacker files! vl.3, an update to
vl.0 on disk 515. Shareware, includes full
source.

PPAnim - An anim player for normal IFF ANIM
opt 5 (DPaint III,...) files or ANIM files crunched
with PowerPacker. The decrunching is done auto¬
matically as the file is read. Features many com¬
mand line options, palette change during anima¬
tion, full overscan PAL/NTSC support and yet it is
only 7K. Compatible with AmigaDOS 2.0. Some
new 2.0 features (Asl requester) supported. vl.Oa,
an update to vl.0 on disk 414. Binary only.

PPLoadSeg - This program patches the loadseg
routine to automatically recognise files crunched
with PowerPacker. After running PPLoadSeg
crunched libraries and devices are still recognised
by AmigaDOS. You can even crunch fonts and use
them as normally, vl.0, binary only.

PPMore - A 'More' replacement program that
reads normal ascii text files as well as files crunched
with PowerPacker. The crunched files can result in
considerable disk space savings, vl.8, an update
to vl.7 on disk 371. Enhancements include a WB
2.0 3D look under 1.3 and support for the Asl
requester under 2.0. Binary only.

PPShow - A 'Show* program for normal IFF
ILBM files or ILBM files crunched with PowerPacker.
The decrunching is done automatically as the file is
read. v1.2a, update to vl.2 on disk 371, binary
only.

PPType - A 'Print' program that will print normal
ASCII files or files crunched with PowerPacker.
Several nice features such as page headers and
numbers, adjustable tab sizes, page info taken from
preferences and more, vl.1 a, update to vl.1 on
disk 371, binary only.

Remaplnfo - An icon color remapping tool that
swaps the colors black and white. The program
runs on 1.3, but when run on 2.0 it supports the
Applcon feature. Drag all icons you wish to remap
on Remaplnfo’s Applcon to recolor them, vl.0,
binary only.

Selector - Helps you assemble programs on a
boot disk and start them in a user friendly way by
putting up a window with gadgets to launch pro¬
grams. v3.0, update to v2.5 on disk 302. Binary
only.

TheGuru - Puts the guru back in Kickstart 2.0. A
comeback you will not want to miss. New features
include support for virtual and public screens, edit¬
ing of phonemes and a full gadtools interface. v2.0,
an update to vl.0 on disk 378. Requires
AmigaDOS 2.0. Binary only.

VCLI - Voice Command Line Interface (VCU) is
an Amiga voice recognition program that learns and
recognises a set of voice commands. Each voice
command is associated with an Amiga CU com¬
mand that is executed when an incoming voice
command is recognised. VCU allows the execution
of any Amiga CU command by voice. Requires the
Perfect Sound 3 audio digitiser. v2.0 of VCU which
offers improved performance, improved operabil¬
ity, and improved graphics for voiceprint display.
Binary only.

DISK 543

AudioScope - AudioScope is a realtime audio
spectrum analyser. Use AudioScope to examine
the frequency spectrum of any audio signal re¬
ceived through the PerfectSound 3 audio digitiser.
Due to the heavy computational load, an acceler¬
ated Amiga is recommended. Binary only.

Badger - Reminder program for your startup-
sequence. Badger will open a window and display
any important events that are 'due'. Badger will not
bother you if there is nothing to report. Events are
entered via menu and prompts. v2.05a, an update
to v2.01eon disk 432. Includes many new features
such as event editing and automatic holiday notifi¬
cation. Shareware, binary only.

ColorCatch - Grab colors from a screen and
save them as an executable file. v2.0, an update to
vl.0 on disk 396. Includes source in assembler.

Day2Day - A small program which can calculate
the number of days between two dates. Very useful,
if for example, you want to know how many days
you have been alive, vl.0. Includes source in
assembler.

MouseXY - Shows the mouse coordinates and
the color at that position. It can be moved from
screen to screen (automatically evacuates any clos¬
ing screen). Is able to show coordinates even when
you are moving/resizing windows or moving WB
icons, vl.1, an update to vl.0 on disk 483.
Includes source in assembler.

PictSaver - Cut rectangular portions of any
screen and store them on disk as IFF-ILBM files.
Easy saving of windows and entire screens to disk.
v2.0, an update to ‘PicSaver’ vl.0 on disk 494.
Includes source in assembler.

PReader - All purpose reader that displays text,
pictures, sounds, and animations, all of which may
be uncompressed or compressed with a companion
compression program (not included). Text can in¬
clude embedded static or animated illustrations and
sounds. v5.1, freeware, binary only.

Spectrogram - Spectrogram computes a fre¬
quency analysis of any 8 bit audio data file and
creates a high resolution color display showing
frequency content versus time. Display color is
continuously adjustable. This type of display when
applied to the human voice has been called a
voiceprint. This technique has also been used to
analyse sounds of many kinds of animals including
birds, dolphins, whales, etc. The audio data file can
be replayed at any desired rate, giving a simultane¬
ous audio and visual representation of the sample.
A selection of interesting audio samples for analy¬
sis by Amiga Spectrogram is included. v6.3, binary
only.

TD - Like 'TrackDisplay' on disk 399. It monitors
and displays the current track for each floppy disk
connected to the Amiga. v2.0, an update to vl.0
on disk 483. Includes source in assembler.

WBplane - 2 very small tools to change the depth
of the WB screen. AddWBplane adds a bitplane.

SubWBplane subtracts a bitplane. Both can be run
from both CU and WB. vl.0. Includes source in
assembler.

DISK 544

AWP - Animates any wait pointer like the one in
WB 2.0. It installs a vertical blank interrupt to
minimise CPU usage and is written 100% in assem¬
bler for maximum efficiency. It uses two hands for
the clock, like it should be, and has nine different
user selectable speeds. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0.
vl.0, binary only.

EraseDisk - Used to erase a disk by setting all
bits on the disk to zero. v0.69, includes source in
assembly.

LanderGame - Lander 3DX is an X-Specs 3D
Lunar Lander game. Maneuver your landing craft
over a three dimensional fractal lunar landscape
searching for a safe place to land. Watch your fuel,
altitude, and slope of the surface beneath you. Fly
your craft over, around, and behind the lunar peaks.
Digitized sound. Two alternate lunar scenery files
included. Requires X-Specs 3D glasses. Spectacu¬
lar. Binary only.

RaiderGame - Raider 3DX is a classic space
strategy game for X-Specs 3D. Search for enemy
on a 3D map of the galaxy. Warp transport to trouble
spots and protect the Federation bases. Blast the
enemy with your energy torpedoes. But watch your
own energy reserves since you are the last hope of
the galaxy. Digitised sound. Amazing 3D action.
Requires X-Specs 3D glasses. Binary only.

TurboGIF - Demo of a very fast GIF viewer,
three to fifteen times faster than similar programs.
Currently TurboGIF produces very high resolution
black and white images only. Makes an excellent
‘GIF previewer’ to decide if a particular GIF is worth
spending the time converting with one of the other
converters. Shareware, vl.0, binary only.

ZScroll - A short program which scrolls ASCII
text files in a small window on your WB screen.
Includes both English and German versions, vl.0,
includes source.

DISK 545

DrawMap - Release 3.1 of a program for drawing
representations of the Earth’s surface. This release
generates maps in any combination of 16 colors
with full user palette control, larger map files with
national boundaries, faster generation of box and
globe views, an improved online Help facility, pro¬
vision for saving and printing displays, and general
tightening of the source code. Accelerated vrequiring
a 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU also provided. Full
source code included. Requires 1.2 megabytes of
memory. Update to v2.25d on disk 485.

DISK 546

2View - 2View is a I LBM picture viewer for use
under WB 2.0. It supports all standard Amiga
graphics modes, ARexx, and both the CU and WB.
A list of files to display can be used, or each
filename can be given individually. Each picture
that is displayed can be shown for a specified
amount of time, or until the user clicks on the left
mouse button, vl.11, includes source.

Budget - Helps with managing personal finances.
vl.3.3, an update to vl.302 on disk 452. Binary
only.

DiskPrint - Prints disk labels (for 3.5' and 5.25"
disks), primarily for FD library disks, with the ability
to create, handle, load and save label library files so
labels for most FD disks are available after a few
mouse clicks. Features include different label sizes,
library files, directory- read-in, direct disk contents
read-in, label library functions and printing labels
for a whole serie of disks in one turn. Works fine
with every printer connected to the parallel port,
v <3.1.2, an update to v2.7.2 on disk 461.
Shareware, binary only.

DSound - DSound is 8SVX sound sample player
that plays samples directly off the hard drive. The
sound sample is played as it is loaded, making it
possible to play sound samples of any length even
under limited memory conditions. v0.91a, includes
source.

Icons - 2 collections of high-quality, consistently
designed icons for WB. The color collections will
require an 8 color WB (i.e. WB 2.0). The black and
white collections are useable on any normal 4 color
WB. One set of icons is based on the icons supplied
with the GEM windowing system, and the other set
is modeled after the icons on a Silicon Graphics
Personal Iris. A bonus set of ray-traced icons is
included.

WBLink - WBUnk corrects a deficiency in WB
2.0: the inability to create links to files and directo¬
ries from WB. WBLink puts an 'Applcon' on the WB
screen that makes a link to any file or directory that
is dropped on it. For WB 2.0 or later, vl.00,
includes source.

AMIGA ANNUAL 74

DISK 547

EasyExpress - A compiler tool for the users of
Charlie Gibbs’ A68k assembler and The Software
Distillery’s BLink. EasyExpress does the same job
better than your batch file and is much easier to
change for current use. If you use many object files,
EasyExpress can make your life much easier. You
can do almost everything via mouse and just watch
how easily the compilation of your program hap¬
pens. Binary only.

FindName - To be used in scripts. Verify the
presence of certain structures in RAM. You can
currently search for devices, libraries, memory,
messageports, resources and tasks. The search is
done by name. vl.O, includes source in assem¬
bly.

MMBShift - Lets you use the middle mouse-
button (MMB) (on a three-button mouse) as a
SHIFT-key when selecting multiple icons on the
WB. Only uses 166 bytes of memory. vl.O, in¬
cludes source in assembly.

PowerSource - For creating and editing intui¬
tion gadgets and menus. Previously known as
GadgetED (disk 475). Includes a palette editor,

generation of either C or assembly source, and
binary saving for later loading and editing. v3.0,
includes source.

RMBShift - Lets you use the right mouse-button
(RMB) as a SHIFT-key when selecting multiple
icons on the WB. Only uses 174 bytes of memory.
vl.O, includes source in assembly.

VideoMaxe - Manage your video tape collection.
Both program and documentation are in German.
No English at this time. v3.00, binary only.

View - Text displayer with many controls and
features including searches, file requestors, jump
to editor etc. vl.3, an update to vl.O on disk 504.
Includes source.

DISK 548

FreePaint - Painting program, like DPaint. v35z,
binary only.

LabelMaker - Allows you to create fancy, full
sized, colored labels for 3.5' floppy disks, vl.5,
includes source.

MambaMove - Game with the goal of moving an
apple eating snake inside four walls until an exit
appears. Includes source.

Multiinstall - Script driven program for the in¬
stallation of larger program packages. Executes
CU like script files in a simple language. vl.O,
includes source.

SandGlass - Animates the original WB busy
pointer. Only for WB/Kickstart up to vl.3. vl.O,
includes source.

TG - 'Eyes' program. Includes source.

DISK 549

Bugs - Another gag-program. Be careful! It may
distroy graphics, but nothing else! Can be stopped
by pressing the firebutton of a joystick in port 1.
Includes source in Modula II.

FFEX - Creates Fractals. Lots of features. Uses
an interesting algorithm for extra speed. Source
includes modules for reading/writing ILBM pic¬
tures, and for using the ARP filerequester in modula-
II. v4.0.

FontList - Prints a list of the fonts in the FONTS:
device to the printer. Prints name, available sizes
and some text using the specified font. Includes
source in Modula II.

M2lcons - New Icons for the M2Amiga System.

Includes a script for easy installation.

MouseMagic - Gag-program. Can be stopped
by closing its window. Includes source in Modula II.

Reversi - Game. Features 'intelligent' computer
opponent. Includes source in Modula II.

VerseWise - Gospel (Matthew, Mark, Luke, &
John) vl .0 of a Bible view/output/search program.
Jump to any specific verse, output scripture to a
disk file, or find verses containing one or more
specific words. Compressed. Binary only.

D1SK.H0

BeBopDemo -Demo of commercial game BeBop
‘N Drop. BeBop ‘N Drop is a real-time graphical
arcade puzzle game, an enhanced version of the
popular shareware game Obsess-O-Matic. Binary
only.

ICalc - Expression calculator with many power¬
ful features, including user-defined functions and
variables, many built-in functions, script files, and
special looping constructs, vl.1, an update to vl.O
on disk 472. Includes source. □

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Compatibility List

The Amiga 3000 and Woikbench 2.x Compatibility Guide

Hard Drive Installation

System friendliness
Game Ratings

The information in the following list is not ‘absolute’. I have
done my best to leave unknown characteristics blank (.); Please
do not abandon hope of a game working on the A3000 just
because it is listed as non-functional here. Why? I did not test all
these games myself, there may be more than one version on sale,
or there may be a variety of luces’ available not listed that can be

by Scott Shambarger

used to make the game work.

Important Note: I take no responsibility for damage or
loss with regards to the patches in the footnotes. Please
only perform them on backups. Most patches are for copies
of files on the hard drive, not the original!

KEY: Program Type

PD Suffix with ‘PD’ if the program is not a
commercial product, but is public domain,
freeware, or shareware!
game for commercial games,
data for supplemental data disks to commercial
programs or games.

draw for paint, animation and design programs,
util for utilities.

muse for music, MIDI, and related programs.

sprd for spreadsheets, databases, etc.
comm for communications programs,
word for word processors or other text programs,
demo for demos of commercial programs or
animations, (assumed PD),
emul for emulations of other operating systems,
misc for programs not fitting in other categories.

FOOTNOTES: Footnotes are listed in any of the following
sections. Their format is: /# # is the number of the
footnote. Footnotes are listed at the END of the list.

A3000

. UNTESTED

Y RUNS on the machine under at least system 1.3.2, no
modification necessary

Y:% RUNS on the machine, but only under the certain
conditions. Patches and other third party assistances should
be footnoted. % can include:

2 functions only under system 2.0.

* functions, but there are mild GRAPHIC
glitches on A3000.

** functions, but there are SEVERE GRAPHIC
glitches on A3000.

P PATCH required, see footnotes for what pro
gram to use, or how to do it yourself.

C CPU CACHES must be turned off for program
to function.

F Fast memory must be disabled for program to
run, (ie. NoFastMem).

f Recommended that fast memory be disabled.

This slows the game down and makes it more
playable. Not applied to games that run better
fast, and means game will still run WITH fast
memory.

B Preceding F, C, or f. Caches or fast memory
must be disabled during the boot procedure.
This is usually for games that boot from the
bootblock and won’t run from workbench/CLI.
See Recommended Utilities (below) for pro
grams to do this.

> runs on the 3000, but game SPEED is accelerated and
game is difficult or impossible to play, (try Bf)

S loses sound sporadically or has poor sound on A3000.
N:% DOES NOT RUN on the A30G0 under any known
conditions, (no patches, CPU settings, etc.)

% matches either:

E fails due to a CPU exception, (any kind).

O fails due to some other program error, and the
program either freezes or does not perform
correctly.

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Compatibility List

. UNTESTED

Y RUNS off a hard drive, but protection unspecified.

Y:% RUNS off a hard drive, qualifier specifies key disk,
manual, etc. or whether there is a patch do make it work,
(should be footnoted).

% can include:

+ Runs pure, no protection.

A “assigns” must be made for HD copy to work, usually
game disk assigned to HD drawer.

K key disk required.

M uses a “page 21, line 7, word 5” copy from manual
method, or similar.

P patch required, see footnote for what program to use, or
how to do it yourself.

N: % DOES NOT INSTALL on a hard drive by ANY
known means.

% matches either:

B Disk must be booted as disk has custom bootblock.

D Protection on disk makes it impossible to install on HD.

System Friendliness: SF

. UNTESTED

M% MULTITASKS with other programs. These pro¬
grams will allow other programs to run AT THE SAME
TIME. Programs that must pause to allow multitasking are
in the ‘F’ category.

F% FORBIDS multitasking. These programs will tempo¬
rarily halt other programs from running, but will return
control to the system either during a pause or after the
program exits.

T% TAKESOVER the system and either does not return
control to the system, or crashes the system upon an exit.

This is classic of many games.

% matches:

+ Program can be started either from Workbench 1.3/2.0
or from CLI.

Program must be booted, either because it loads from a
custom bootblock or it requires an old version of the
Workbench (ie. 1.2) to run.

1 Program is more than one disk, but will only use ONE
drive, (requires switching disks needlessly).

2 Program will use additional disk drives if available.

Scale of system friendliness:

M+ M- F+ F- T+ T-

Friendly < - - > Unfriendly

Game Ratings

This rating system is based on votes submitted in an Internet
VIDEO GAMES RATINGS REPORT, and applies only to
games. The poll is organized and run by Chuck Musciano,
John Leo, and Eric Ng. They deserve applause for their efforts

in providing this rating system. Thank you also to all those who
submitted to the report. Information on the report can be found
through regular postings in comp.sys.amiga.games and the
organizers can be contacted through video-
request@irss.njit.edu.

Rating date of this list: Aug. ’91.

. UNRATED as of last poll.
x.x:# RATED

x.x Average of votes for the game based on the following
scale:

8-10.0 Worth buying at full price.

6-7.0 Worth buying at a discount, or if you’re particu¬
larly interested in this kind of game.

3-5.0 Only worth renting.

2.0 Only worth playing for free, and only for a few
minutes.

1.0 Worthless.

# Total number of votes for the game.

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Recommended Utilities

The following list of utilities should be in every A3000 software
collection. If you don’t already have these utilities, they should be available
on local BBSs, Bix, Genie, popular Internet FTP sites, etc.

‘newzap’ - This utility can be used to edit DOS files byte by byte. Patches
explained in the footnotes of this list can be applied with this program using
the ASCII search feature, and by typing new data/values manually,
‘bootcache’ - This program will disable CPU CACHES upon reboot of the

system. This will help many programs work correctly on the A3000.

‘disable’ 1 wrote this program to expand on‘bootcache.’ It will turn off CPU
CACHES and/or FAST MEMORY in the A3000 during a reboot. This program
will work under both 1.3 and 2.x. 1 will make an effort to upload this program
to Genie, Bix, and several FTP sites, (ie. ab20.larc.nasa.gov).

‘setcpu’ Will disable/enable CPU CACHES immediately, but will not survive
a reboot, (‘cpu’ available with 2.x).

‘nofastmem’ Will disable FAST MEMORY immediately, but will not survive
a reboot.

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Compatibility List

A3000 Compatibility List v2.0
Machine Systems

by Scott m. Shambarger

Program Name

Type

A3000

2.x

Ratings

A10 Tank Killer

game

Y:+

F+2

6.5:20

Aaargh!

game

Y:04

N:D

T-

Access vl.42

comm

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Aegis Draw

draw

Y:+

M+

Alien Syndrome

game

4.5:38

Amax-ll (2.0 & 2.06)

emul

Y:04

Y:+/19

T+

AmiCron

misc

Amiga Karate

game

N:03

N:D

T+

AmigaVision

misc

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Arazok’s Tomb

game

Y:F

Y:04F

N:D

T-

Arc v.23

utilPD

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Arkanoid

Arkanoid II:

game

TN:04

7.0:53

Revenge of Doh

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

7.1:34

Armour-Geddon

Arthur: The Quest for

game

N:03

N:B

T-2

Excalibur

Art Department

game

Y:04

6.5:2

Prof, vl.0.3

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

ARTM

misc

Asteroids

game

Y:F

Y:04F

Y:+

M+

ATalk III

comm

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Atomino

game

Y:04

Audiomaster III

muse

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Aunt Arctic Adventure

game

TN:04

6.0:3

Awesome

game

X:04

N:B

T-2

6.2:20

Aztec C

util

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Program Name

Type

A3000

2.x

Ratings

BAAL

game

5.4:19

Ball

game

Y/28

Y:+

BaJlistix

Bandit Kings of

game

Y:BC

Y:04BC

N:B

T-

5.9:29

Ancient China

game

Y:04

Y:M

M+2

8.0:7

Barataccus

game

Y:Bf

X:04

N:B

T-

Barbarian

game

N:E

X:04

N:B

T-

5.2:43

Bard’s Tale

game

N:E

N:03

Y:AM

6.7:35

Bard’s Tale II

game

Y:F

Y.04F

Y:AM

M+2

7.1:33

Bard’s Tale III

game

Y:04

Y:+

M+

10.0:1

Batman: The Movie

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

5.6:30

Battle Chess

game

Y:04

Y:M

F+

7.1:76

Battle Chess II

game

Battle Force v3.01-3.77

game

Y:04

Y:+

T-(!) .

Battle Squadron

game

Y***

Y:04**

N:B

T-

8.1:40

Battletech (Infocom)

game

Y:04

Y:M

T+

6.8:26

Baud Bandit

comm

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Beyond Dark Castle

game

Beyond Zork

game

Y:04

Y:M

M+

7.4:13

Black Magic

game

TN:04

Blastaball

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

Blasteroids

game

N:E

N:03

N:B

T-

Blood Money

game

Y/14

Y:04/14

N:B

T-1

6.4:40

BloodWych

game

Y:04

6.2:12

Borrowed Time

game

Y:04

Y:A+/17

M+

Breach II

game

Y:04

Y:M

M+

8.1:7

Bubble Bobble

game

Y:Bf

Y:04Bf

N:D

T-

7.2:28

Bubble Ghost

game

Buck Rogers

game

Y:BF

TN:02

Program Name

Type

A3000

2.x

Ratings

Buddysystem

misc

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Budokan

game

6.7:18

Buggy Boy

game

Y:04

Y:+

T+

6.1:26

Caligari PRO Demo

demo

Y:04/42

Y:+

F+

Captain Blood

game

TN:04

5.2:17

Captive

Centurion:

game

Y:04/9

N:B

T+

5.9:9

Defender of Rome

Chamber of

game

Y:04

Y:M

M+

8.0:1

Sci-Mutant Priest

game

TN:04

Champions of Krynn

game

Y:04

Y:M

M+2

7.5:28

Chaos Strikes Back

game

X:04

N:D

T+

8.5:21

Chessmaster 2000

game

Y:04

Y:A+

M+

7.0:24

Chessmaster 2100
Chuck Yeager’s

game

Y:04

Y:M

M+

7.0:6

AFT 2.0

game

Y:BC

Y:04BC

Crystal Hammer

game

Y:BF

N:03

T+

6.2:19

Crystal Quest

game

Y:04

Y:A+

Dark Castle

game

Y:Cf

Y:04Cf

Y:AK/37 F+2

6.2:27

Dark Century

game

TN:04

Das Boot

game

DataTax

misc

M+

dBMAN v5.2

sprd

Y:*

M+

dBMAN v5.3

sprd

M+

Death Bringer

game

N:03

N:B

T-1

Death Sword

game

Y:BCf

X:04

N:D

F-/43

Defender of the Crown

game

Y:C

Y:04C

Y:AK/38 T+2

6.3:60

Deja Vu

Deluxe Music

game

Y:04

N:D

T+

6.6:18

Construction Set

muse

Y/27

Y:04/27

Y:+

M+

Deluxe PhotoLab

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Deluxe Paint III

draw

Y:04/10

Y:+

M+

Deluxe Video III

draw

Y:+

M+

Design 3D

draw

Y:+

M+

Designworks vl.O

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Diga! v2.02

comm

Y:04

Y:+

M+

DigiPaint 3

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

DigiView 4.0

draw

Y:*/11

Y:04*/11

Y:+

M+

Disk Master vl.4

util

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Distant Suns

draw

Y:04

DNet

comm

PD Y

Y:04

Y:A+

M+

Double Dragon

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

4.0:26

Double Dragon II

Dr. Ts KCS

game

TN:04

6.5:2

level II v3.02

muse

Y:C

Y:04C

Y:K

M+

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Compatibility List

Dr. Ts KCS level II

IntuiTracker

util

V3.05-3.5

muse

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Ishido

game

6.6:10

Dragon Force

game

Y:04

6.8:6

It Came From the

Dragon’s Lair 1

game

Y/45

TN:04

5.1:31

Desert

game

TN:04

7.1:44

Dragon’s Lair:

Journey

game

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Escape from Singe

game

TN:04

Y:M

M+2

JRComm vl.O

Dragon’s of Flame

game

TN:04

(<v1.0 is PD)

comm

Y:04

Y:A+

M+

Drakkhen vl.1

game

Y:BC

N:B

T-1

7.7:26

Karate Kid II

game

TN:04

Drip

gamePD N:0

X:04

Y:+

F+

7.4:23

Killing Game Show

game

Y/36

Y:04/36

N:B

T-

7.8:39

Dungeon Master

game

N:03

Y:PK/2

T+

8.9:84

KindWords v2.0

word

TN:02/26Y:+

M+

DynaCADD vl.84

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

King of Chicago

game

Y:C

Y:04C

M+2/167.2:5

EbonStar

game

Y:04

Y:AK/15 T+/15

King’s Quest III

game

Y:C

Y:04C/34Y:K

M+

Elite

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

7.7:38

Knight Ore

game

Y:04

Y:+

T+

Emerald Mine

game

7.7:29

Lattice C 5.10a

util

Y:04

Y:A+

M+

Empire 2.05 & 2.1

Leather Goddesses

(Interstel)

game

Y:M

M+

8.0:35

of Phobos

game

Y:04

Y:+

M+

6.6:17

Eye of the Beholder

game

Y:04*/31 Y

F+

8.0:5

Leisure Suit Larry III

game

Y:04

Y:M/1

M-1/1

6.6:5

Excellence!

word

Y:+

M+

Lemmings

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

9.3:59

F-16 Combat Pilot

game

TN:04

6.6:19

Leonardo

game

F-16 Mission Disk

data

TN:04

8.5:23

Lharc

utilPD

Y:04

Y:+

M+

F/A-18 Interceptor

game

Y:04

Y: PAM/3 T+

7.9:75

Lhwarp

utilPD

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Faery Tale Adventure

game

Y:04*S

N:D

F-

7.4:35

Lords of the Rising Sun game

Y:04

Y:AK

F+2

6.7:28

Falcon vl.1

game

7.5:60

Ml Tank Platoon

game

Y:04

Y:+

7.6:23

Falcon

MacView

misc

Mission 1 (floppy)

data

n/a

8.5:23

Major Motion

game

N:D

T-

5.7:3

Falcon Mission 1 (HD)

data

Y/8

“

MakeC vl .9

misc

M+

Fantavision

draw

MakeC v2.0

misc

N:2

M+

Fire Brigade

game

5.1:12

Manic Mansion

game

TN:04

Fire Power

game

Y:04/20

Y:AK/39

T+

Mandel Mountains

miscPD

Y:04

Y:+

Flight Simulator

game

Marble Madness

game

N:E

N:03

Y:+/18

T+

6.9:60

Right Simulator II vl.O

game

Y:04

N:D

T-

6.4:27

Matrix Marauders

game

TN:04

Footman

game

Y:>

Mavis Beacon

Full Metal Planet

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

5.0:12

Teaches Typing

game

Y:04

Y:K

F+

Future Wars

game

Y:BC

Y:04BC

Y:M

T+2

6.8:12

MaxiPlan Spreadsheet sprd

M+

Future Sound 500

muse

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Mean 18

game

Y:04

Y:+

M+

5.4:7

Gauntlet II

game

X:02

N:B

T-

7.0:50

MED 3.00

muscPD Y

Y:04

M+

Gee Bee Air Ralley

game

Y:04

Y:+

T+

5.3:25

Mechforce v3.77

gamePD Y

Y:04

Y:+

7.3:9

Ghostbusters II

game

4.1:15

Megaball

gamePD Y

Y:04

Y:+

Gold of the Americas

game

6.7:3

Menace

game

N:0

X:04

N:B

T-

6.8:22

Grabbit

util

MessyDOS

utilPD

Y:04/44

Y:+

M+

Gravity Wars 2.0

game

MicroFiche Filer Plus

sprd

M+

Greg Norman Shark

Might & Magic II

game

Y:04

Y:A+

Attack Golf

game

TN:04

5.2:4

Mindwalker

game

Y:04

Y:A+

F+

6.8:11

Gunship

game

TN:04

Y:K

6.8:24

Missile Command

gamePD Y:F>

Y:04F>

Y:+

M+

Halls of Montezuma

game

Mission Elevator

game

Y:PBF/35Y:04PBF/Y:+/35

T+

Hard ‘N Heavy

game

N:0

X:04

N:B

T-

Monkey Island

game

Y:04

Harpoon

game

TN:02

Y:+

7.7:22

Monopoly

gamePD Y

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Heart of the Dragon

game

MrBackup

util

Y:+

M+

Hero’s Quest 1

game

Y:04

Y:M/1

M-1/1

Nascar Challenge

game

Y:04

Y:M

T+2

Hostage

game

6.0:22

NetHack 3.0 patch 10

gamePD Y

Y:04

Y:A+

M+

7.0:2

Hybris

game

TN:04

7.4:43

Neuromancer

game

Y:BCS

Y:04BCS Y:MK

T+

6.6:19

Imagine 1.0

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Never Mind

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

Immortal

game

6.8:17

NewTek Demo 1 & 3

demo

Y/11

Y:04/11

Y:+

M+

Indianapolis 500

game

Y:04

7.9:38

NewZap

utilPD

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Infocom Text Adventure game

Night Shift

game

Y:04

Y:K

F+

6.5:8

International

Nuclear War

game

Y:04

Y:K

7.4:38

Soccer Challenge

game

TN:04

6.0:2

N.Y. Warriors

game

Y:04/46

5.8:17

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Compatibility List

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Obliterator

game

5.5:15

Scrabble

game

Y:04

N:D

M-

0bsess-0-Matic

Sculpt-Animate 4D

draw

Y:04

M+

1.0-3.0 (tetris)

gamePD Y

Y.04

Y:+

M+

Shadow of the Beast

game

N:0

X:04

N:B

T-

6.9:70

Ogre

game

Y:04

Y:K

T+

Shadow of the Beast II

game

N:0/5

X:04

N:B

T-

6.4:42

Oil Empirium

game

TN:04

ShadowGate

game

TN:04

6.4:13

Omega

gamePD Y:F

Y:04F/40 Y:+

M+

6.3:19

Shanghai

game

Y:C

8.4:42

Online! Platinum

comm

TN:02/24 Y:A+

M+

Shinobi

game

TN:04

Operation Wolf

game

TN:04

Shogun

game

Y:04

Outrun

game

Y:>

4.8:17

Shoot ‘Em Up

P.O.W.

game

Construction Kit

misc

Y:04

Y:+

F+

4.9:15

Pacmania

game

Y:**/7

S.E.U.C.K. games

gamePD Y

Y:04

Y:+

F+

Pawn

game

Y:04

Y:M

T-

Sidewinder

game

Y:S

Y:04S

Y/25

6.6:33

Pen Pal vl.3.18

word

Y:+

M+

Silkworm

game

N:0/21

X:04

N:B

T-

7.6:39

PageSetter 1.0

word

Y:04

Y:+

M+

SimCity 1.0

game

N:03

N: D/41

M+

PageSetter II

word

M+

SimCity 1.1

game

Y:K

M+

Pagestream v2.1

word

Y:04

Y:+

M+

SimCity 1.2

game

Y:04

Y:+

M+

8.2:106

PaperBoy

game

4.9:12

Sinbad

game

Y:C

Y:04C

Y:K/22

T+

Perfect Sound 3.0

muse

M+

688 Attack Sub

game

Y:04

Y:M

M+

6.5:30

Pirates!

game

Y:04

Y:A+

8.5:43

SkyChase

game

TN:04

PKAZip

miscPD

Y/12

Y:+

M+

Skyfox

game

N:0

N:03

4.5:17

Pocoman

game

Y:04

8.2:11

Snipit

game

Pool of Radience

game

Y:S

Y:04S

M+

7.1:19

Sonix

muse

Y:P/13

Y:04P/13 Y:+

M+

Populous

game

Y: PBCf/6Y :04PBCfY: PK/6

T+

8.1:90

Space Ace

game

Ports of Call

game

6.5:29

Space Harrier

game

TN:04

Powermonger

game

TN:04

7.7:56

Space Harrier II

game

N:03

N:B

T-

Powerstyx

game

TN:04

N:B

T-

Speedball

game

X:04

N:B

T-

7.9:60

Pro Video Gold

draw

M+

Speedball II

game

TN:04

8.7:24

Professional Draw

draw

Y:04

Y:A+

M+

Spot (7-up game)

game

Y:02

7.3:3

Project D 2.0

util

Y:CF/35

Y:+

F+

Star Control

game

7.6:22

Projectyle

game

TN:04

Star Trek

gamePD Y

N:03

Y:A+

F+

5.2:4

Prospector

game

Y:S

Star Wars

game

Y:>

6.5:26

Pro Tennis Tour 2

game

Starflight

game

Y:A+

5.9:14

Prowrite 2.5, 3.0 & 3.1

word

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Starglider

game

Y:>

Y:04>

6.1:21

Puffy’s Saga

game

Y:04

N:B

T-

Stellar Crusade

game

Y:M

Qix

game

TN/30

6.4:17

Storm Across Europe

game

TN:02

Y:+

Quarterback v4.2

util

Y:04

Y:+

Strategic Defense

Quarterback Tools

Init.(S.Dl)

game

Y:Bf

Y:04Bf

Y:K

T+

vl .3-1.5

util

Y:04

Y:+

Super-Ami Copy II vl.O util

Y:04

Y:+

F+

QuickWrite vl .0

word

Y:04

Y:+

M+

SuperBase Personal

sprd

Y:04

M+

Rainbow Islands

game

Y:BC

Y:04BC

SuperBase

Rambo III

game

Y:04

4.2:12

Professional 3.0/4.0

sprd

Y:04

M+

RBI Baseball

game

N:03

N:B

T-

SuperPlan

sprd

Y:04

Y:A+/32 M+

Reach for the Stars

game

Y:F

Y:04F

Y:A+

M+

6.6:8

SuperStar Ice Hockey

game

TN:04

Red Storm Rising

game

Y:04

Y:A+

7.2:15

Sword of Aragon

game

6.6:10

Return of the Jedi

game

N:E

N:03

5.7:3

Sword of Sodan

game

6.5:22

Rick Dangerous

game

TN:04

7.2:26

Technocop

game

Y:BCf

N:03

Y:K

Rick Dangerous II

game

7.5:13

Test Drive

game

Y:BF

Y:04BF

Y:K

T+

5.2:11

Risk vl .9

game

Y:04

N:D

T-

6.0:17

Test Drive II: The Duel

game

Y:Bf

Y:04Bf

Y:K/33

T+

6.8:34

Road Wars

game

N:E

N:03

N:B

T-

Their Finest Hour vl .0

game

TN:04

Y:+

7.8:24

Robocop 2

game

N:0

X:04

N:B

T-

5.1:11

Their Finest Hour vl .1

game

Y:04

Y:+

“

Rocket Ranger

game

Y:04

N:D

F+2

7.1:35

Three Stooges

game

TN:04

6.2:33

Rogue

game

Y:F

Y:04F

Y:K

M+

Three-D Breakout

gamePD Y:F

Y:04F

Y:+

M+

Rolling Thunder

game

Y:>S/29

TN:04**

N:D

T-

Tiger Cub (MIDI)

muse

Romance of the

Torch 2081

game

Three Kingdoms

game

8.4:13

Transfer 24

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Scanlab

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

TurboMandel

drawPD

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Scene Generator

draw

Y:04

Y:+

F+

Turbo Silver 3.0a

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

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Compatibility List

TV Sports Football

game

TN: 04/47.

6.4:36

TxEd+

word

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Type Attack

game

Typhoon of Steel

game

Y:04BC

Ultra Design

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

U.M.S. II

Universal Military

game

Y:04

Y:+

M+2

9.0:1

Simulator

game

Untouchables

game

N:0

TN:04

Vegas Gambler

game

VideoScape 3D

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

VideoTitler

draw

Y:04

Y:+

M+

VirusX 4.0

utilPD

Y:+

M+

Vista 1.0

draw

Y:04

VLT up to 5.x

VT100 terminal

commPDY

Y:04

Y:+

M+

emulator

commPDY

Y:04

Y:+

M+

Warlock

game

Y/48

Y:04/48

Warlords

game

7.7:6

Waterloo

Where in the World

game

Carmen Sand

Where in the USA

game

Y:04

Y:MK

M+

Carmen Sand

Who Framed

game

Y:04

Y:MK

M+

Roger Rabbit

game

Y:04

Y:MA

F+

Wings

game

TN:02

Y:M

WordPerfect 4.1

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Y:04

Y:+

M+

XCopy III

utilPD

Xenon

game

TN:04

6.0:26

Zany Golf

game

Y:K

6.9:21

ZeroVirus III

util

Y:+

M+

Zork Zero

game

Y:+

M+

7.2:15

Zoo 2.0

utilPD

Y:+

M+

Footnotes

(1) Will NOT install on HD on the A3000, in fact attempting to
install on A3000 can damage your HD! The game must also be
booted to function correctly on the A3000.

(2) Patch (‘DMpatch’) should be available on BBSs or some
FTP sites, but only works for some versions of the game.

(3) Patch can be done with NewZap, just replace all occurances
of “dfO:” with something you can assign, (like ‘fl8’).

(4) Patch available on many BBS’s and networks will remove
code-wheel protection.

(5) Although it appears to work with only some graphics
glitches, it will crash on some crucial screens.

(6) Patch available on BIX (fixpop.arc).

(7) Glitches so bad, it’s almost unplayable.

(8) Will run on 3000 under 2.0 but not 1.3 (past the cockpit
scene). However, pressing ESC to get menus crashes the system.

(9) Keyboard is touchy in 2.0.

(10) Hangs under 2.0 during a fill of a patterned area. Fixed in
version 3.25.

(11) Dynamic Hi-Res pictures are scrambled, but patch is
shipping from Newtek to fix problem.

(12) Crashes arbitrarily...

(13) Need ‘patchsonix’ available on most networks (bix, etc.)

(14) Graphic glitches on title screen, but runs fine.

(15) Graphic glitches if run from workbench other than its own.
For HD install, similar to (38).

(16) Can’t multitask if workbench is interlace.

(17) Copying with Project D should make this possible.

(18) Can be deprotected with Marauder II.

(19) Patch called ‘FastMax3’ will enable you to place the ROMs
on your HD.

(20) For Firepower to work on 2.02, you must cancel the startup-
sequence and start the program manually through CLI.

(21) Appears to work, but scrambles after about 1 min. of Rating
play.

(22) Disk 2 only can be installed on HD.

(23) Run NoFastMem before running game to slow it down.

(24) Screen opens too large under 2.02.

(25) I haven’t been able to get the installed game to work on the
A3000.

(26) Practically unusable under 2.0, some jerky mouse move¬
ments result.

(27) Problems under 1.3.2 and 2.0: selecting MIDI twice will
GURU machine and frequently crashes on exit. Works fine
under 1.3 (changes to serial.device cause the problem).

(28) Runs a little slower on A3000!

(29) The speed increase on the A3000 actually makes the game
more playable.

(30) Crashes predictably under 2.0 after a few levels.

(31) Text strange under 2.0.

(32) Requires dongle.

(33) Similar to (38), just edit file “duel” and pick new name to
replace tdboot:. (34) May need to “protect sierra +r”!

(35) Buggy on A3000 - crashes at random; but functions most of
the time.

(36) Newer versions work, versions before July ’91 won’t.

(37) Copy all files to HD. Change references of DC1: to DC2: in
file ‘Dark Castle’. Then assign DC2: to HD drawer.

(38) Copy all files to HD, (except “ “ file!). Use newzap on

file “Defender” to change all references of Defenderl: and
Defended: to Defended:.

ONLY EDIT REFERENCES THAT HAVE A
FILENAME ATTACHED TO THEM! Assign Defended: to HD
drawer. Run with both originals in drives, (or switch as re¬
quested).

(39) Similar to

(38), just edit file “FirePower” and pick a new name to replace
FirePower:.

(40) Crashes on exit on 2.0.

(41) Will install with keydisk protection, but requires workbench
1 . 2 !

(42) Mouse pointer a little misguided.

(43) Eject disk to quit.

(44) Can’t ‘cd’ to msO: under 2.x.

(45) Works only if linked to Dragon’s Lair:Escape from Singe’s
Castle.

(46) Can’t see disk prompt under 2.x, just wait for drive to stop
and insert disk 2.

(47) Has many IO errors during play under 2.x.

(48) No joystick control on A3000, keyboard only.

AMIGA ANNUAL 81

Games

ACAR Benchmarks

Most games come and go - but the best linger on, setting standards that the others must strive to
reach. They’re the Benchmarks. And if you haven’t got them in your games collection, you’re only
ever playing the second best. Come with PHIL CAMPBELL on this quick guide to some of the
benchmark games. Some of them may be old, but they’re still best!

ADVENTURE GAMES

Wonderland

What’s the classical definition of an
“Adventure game”? Try this. “A tex¬
tual maze of locations to be explored,
puzzles to be solved and dangers to be
avoided, played by entering commands
from the keyboard, and reading re¬
sponses on the screen.” Yep - been
there, done that. And to tell you the
truth, the sad fact is that almost every
adventure game I have ever played has
driven me to distraction. But Wonder¬
land is different. In fact, Wonderland is
a shining example of the state-of-the-
art, an adventure for non-adventurers
and seasoned players alike.

For a start, Wonderland is very for¬
giving. Older adventure games were
more pedantic than an angry wife.
Hence, when I find a bottle on the glass
table with “DRINK ME” inscribed on
the label, I simply type “Drink potion”.
Some games would refuse to respond -
after all, I didn’t say “Remove Lid.”
But Wonderland simply removes the lid
for me, with the response “You re¬
moved the lid first. You get smaller.”
For adventurers like me, thats avoids
about an hour of frustration. Wonderful
indeed.

Then there’s mapping. Remember
the little scraps of paper littering the
room last time you played an adven¬
ture? The manual alway insists that
making a map is essential - and so it is.
It’s important here too - but Wonder¬
land does it for you. The game is en¬
tirely self-mapping. Even better, if you
want to find your way back to some¬
where you’ve already been, simply point
and click on the map and the system will

automatically retrace your steps.The
intelligent “Help” system is a bonus for
average adventurers too. If you’re stuck
- really stuck - then you can ask for
hints. Naturally, though, too much help
all at once takes the challenge out of the
game, so Wonderland offers tips in a
number of gentle stages.

I’m stuck. How do I open the door
labelled with a large letter “C”? The
first time I ask for help I get a very vague
hint - “This could be a major or a minor
problem.” Doesn’t really strike a chord,
even though I’ve just come from the
music room. Another clue? “For a C
door, use a corresponding key.” Huh?
Not much help either. So finally, the
thick-wit version - “The Key in C is on
the sheet music on top of the piano.”
Knew it all along.

Wonderland uses its own custom
built windows-style interface called
Magnetic Windows. It’s beautifully
crafted, and lets you open the map.
window, hints window, main text win¬
dow and a graphics window all at once.
You can re-size them and position them
however you like, and use a variety of
fonts. The graphics window gives a
post-card size view of your location,
with delightful William Turner style
landscapes that really sparkle from the
screen.

Distributed by:
Mindscape
ph 02 899 2277
RRP $79.95

AMIGA ANNUAL 82

Games

SHOOT-EM-UPS

SWIV

These guys must be doing something right. First it was
Silkworm , then came the sequel SWIV - two of the best
shoot-em-ups ever, from the same programming stable.

The action in SWIV is fast and furious. You control either
a jeep or a helicopter, travelling up the screen through the
most hostile looking landscape you’ve ever seen. But the
landscape is nothin’ compared to the enemy forces that rain
down on you from the top end of the screen. All I can say is...
aaaaargggh!

Animation is fast and smooth, the action is frantic, the
graphics are mean and metallic, and the sound track is
deafening. Top stuff, and as yet unbeaten in terms of best
blast for your bucks.

Distributed by:

Mindscape

ph 02 899 2277

RRP $69.95

BRAIN TEASERS

Lemmings

I’ve always said that a game based on
a catchy idea will beat all the fancy
graphics and sound effects in the world.

Lemmings proves the point perfectly.
It’s a game based on those furry little
rodents that rush off the sides of cliffs in
bizarre mass suicide rituals. And with¬
out a doubt, it’s one of the best and most
enjoyable games available in any cat¬
egory.

The aim of the game is simple - save
the Lemmings. Hordes of them pour
onto a computer screen full of deadly
hazards and obstacles, and it’s up to you
to herd them safely to a small exit
leading to a safe new home with plenty
of good tucker.

The only tools at your disposal are
the Lemmings themselves. A control
panel along the bottom of the screen
shows a range of special Lemming abili¬
ties. Click on one of these, then on the
Lemming of your choice, and he’ll get
to work. There’s a climber icon, a floater,
a builder, a number of diggers, and most

important of all, a blocker. Sound con¬
fusing? Well, yes - but not for long.

Imagine for a moment there’s a
deadly drop on the left of the screen, and
a vertical cliff face on the right. When
the brainless Lemmings come face to
face with the cliff wall, they’ll turn
around and head back towards the
chasm, and certain death. We need a
blocker - so click on the blocker icon
with the mouse, wait until the first
Lemming approaches the hazardous
drop, then click on him. He’ll stop and
put up his arms, blocking all his little
mates.

Now for the obstacle. Maybe a dig¬
ger can tunnel his way through the cliff
face - a good idea if it’s not too thick. Or
maybe it would be better to activate a
builder who will construct a stairway of
small bricks. The real appeal of the
game is that it makes you think - often
the obstacles seem impossible, but
there’s always a way through.The first
few levels of the game are easy. From
then on, the going gets tough, and you’ll
really need to use your resources well.
Usually, the number of times you can
use each icon is limited. To add to the
excitement, you’re playing to a strict

time limit too.

Lemmings is unique. The graphics
are delightful - each level has a fascinat¬
ingly detailed backdrop, while each
tiny Lemming demonstrates an amaz¬
ing amount of character. Above all, the
concept is simple, and the game is lots
of fun.

Distributed by Questor, the Amiga
version of Lemmings originally retailed
at $69.95. However, it’s now available
in a compilation pack with three other
top games at around the same price. If
you’ve mastered the original game, look
out for Oh No! More Lemmings , which
adds another batch of even harder lev¬
els.

AMIGA ANNUAL 83

Games

SPORTS

SIMULATIONS

Jimmy White's
Whirlwind Snooker

What makes a top class sports simu¬
lation? First, playability. Second, the
degree to which it captures the feel of
the real-life game. And with that in
mind, you just can’t go past Jimmy
White's Whirlwind Snooker.

Programmer Archer Maclean has pro¬
duced a simulation that really feels real.
A few zany touches - like balls that
spring to life and poke out their tongues
- add a touch of spice that make this
game stand out from the crowd.

The game opens to a rousing piano
rendition of a Scott Joplin rag - perfect
music for a pool hall. You can choose to
play a friend, or one of three computer¬
ised opponents, Tom, Dick and Harry.
When you’ve paid your dues you can
challenge the great Jimmy White, cur¬
rently holding third position in the World
Snooker rankings. White is fast, accu¬
rate and very popular, a crowd favourite
since winning the English Amateur
Championship in 1979 at the record age
of 16 years.

So let’s play ball. It’s my break.

As in the real world, the gaps be¬
tween the balls in the frame are minutely

different every

»*

time, so the re¬

sults of the

break are un¬

predictable. I

simply close

my eyes and hit

as hard as I can.

Balls spray

everywhere,

with a satisfy¬

ing cascade of

c 1 i c k e t y -

clicks. So far,

Ijlfl

so good.

Sjj \

Cue action

is mouse con-

trolled, with a series of icons arranged
across the top of the screen. From here
you can set top spin and side spin, select
the power of your shot, adjust your aim,
change your point of view, and even
chalk your cue. Here’s a hint - if you
forget the chalk, attempts to curve the
ball will be embarrassing.

The screen display is dynamic, with
fast changing views from every possi¬
ble angle. It’s hard to describe, but for
the moment, imagine a camera attached
to the end of your cue. With the camera
“focused” on the cue ball in the centre
of the screen, a click on the mouse
button will effectively rotate the view
of the table around the ball. Confusing
at first, but after one or two games you

will realise it’s a fast and intuitive way
to move around the table and set up
shots.

This is a game that not only sticks to
the rules of real world snooker - it
follows the laws of physics to the letter.
It’s fun to play, impossible to master,
and takes up very little space in your
loungeroom. All in all, a top class game.

Distributed by:

Mindscape
ph 02 899 2277
RRP $79.95

LIFE SIMULATIONS

Simcity

What’s a “life simulation”? It’s the
name I’ve given to a whole new class of
games which - what did you expect -
simulate life. And this is the game that
got the ball rolling. These days there are
plenty of clones, and most of them are
very good. There’s Utopia , there’s
Powermonger , there Railroad Tycoon ,
and soon there’ll be Sid Meier’s Civili¬
sation. From Maxis, the originators of
Sim City , there’s Sim Earth and Sim Ant.

But if you’re looking for a bench¬
mark, then it has to be the original and
best - Sim City.

Sim City puts you in charge of a lump
of money and a patch of land. There’s a
bunch of icons that let you build houses,

shops, roads, railroads, and power grids,
and there’s a screen full of statistics that
are updated as you create your perfect
community.

Best of all, as you create your mini¬
ature city on the screen, it springs into
life. Build a shopping centre, a road, and
a group of houses, and you’ll soon see
people setting off in their tiny
cars to go shopping. Build a ;dit "
railway line and you’ll see the
trains chuffing backwards and
forwards. Build some ports and
the ships ply their way back¬
wards and forwards across the
water. Before long, it’s a hive
of activity.

What more do I need to say?

We gave Sim City the Game of
the Year Award in 1990, and j
since then it’s gone on to big¬

ger and better things. With good reason!
If you haven’t got it, get it. And while
you’re there, pick up a few scenario
disks too - there are all sorts of nice add¬
ons like the Sim City Graphics disk,
with graphics for Ancient Asian cities,
Medieval villages, and Wild Western
frontier towns.

Twin Cities? Teb 19B5 5B47

AMIGA ANNUAL 84

Games

Role Placing Gems

There's nothing more frustrating than being stuch in your favourite RPG!

Here are some dazzlingly helpful hints.

Bane of the Cosmic Forge
(Wizardry)

The password to enter the door in
the SE tower of the 1st level is
SNOOPCHERI. Use the ROTTEN
CHEESE on the MOUSEHOLE.

Some small help for playing the game
successfully:

A tremendous source for playing
the game can be found in getting Bane
of the Cosmic Forge Compilation re¬
leased by Baser Evil on the 6th of
March, it contains many helpful maps
to the game with marked locations.

When you create your characters, it
may be a good idea just to make all of
them Dracons. This is untested, but
unless you have at least one of this fire
breathing race you surely won’t sur¬
vive the game. So maybe it would be
good to have more.

Use a good mix of the classes, try to
take one of each spell class and a good
solid thief that is at full strength. Get a
good enough thief and you don’t need
a fighter. It may be slow, but keep
rolling until you get the best character
possible.

Be sure to make at least one charac¬
ter female, there are places in the game
where this is a must. Don’t do it and
you’ll be sorry later!

Diversify your skills. Have each
character specialise in a few skills rela¬
tive to his class. Don’t worry about
developing weapons skills, you have
no use for them if you created your
party correctly.

In fights early in the game use
Dracon’s breath attack, just be careful
not to overextend yourself. Rest after
each encounter, backing up your hard
work. Always search the area after a
combat.

Search each square you step in. Not
only this, but search facing all four
directions, many things can only be
found that way. Thieves are not always
true. If you find a lock and have your
thief open it, always guess it is POI¬

SON unless you are 100% sure (i.e.
tried it before) because it is better to
suffer something else than to die by
getting this wrong.

Don’t bash doors early in the game!
If your characters are not very strong
you will be sorry. Jammed doors do
you no good, as you might never be
able to open them again. Same goes for
picking the lock. Wait until you get a
spellcaster capable of conjuring
KNOCK KNOCK with at least 18
points (preferably 24) and do it this
way. It is much more sure.

Once you know there are secret
panels or buttons, keep walking past
them until you discover them. Some¬
times it takes a while to sense them.

Beyond the Gates

Entering THE END OF TIME
DRAWS NEAR will call up a full
character editor that allows you to
change your stats and add any item to
your inventory.

Chaos Strikes Back

Find a dragon and cast MON ZO
GOR SAR, then hit ESC to pause the
game. Hold down the ALT key and
type in LORD LIBRASULUS
SMITHES THEE DOWN. Unpause the
game and slay the beast. He leaves
behind a firestaff and your party will be

Bard’s Tale

Load your party, go to the statistics
screen for the first player. To get more
gold than you will need, transfer all the
party’s gold to one player. Save him to
disk then load him back up and transfer
all to another. Keep repeating this proc¬
ess till you have done it to all the play¬
ers, then exit without saving. Load back
up and all your players will have the
amount of gold equal to that of the
entire party before. Repeat until satis-

invincible.

Undocumented Spells:

GOR IR KU - Detects Monsters

GOR IR ROS - Detects fake walls
and “invisible” (actually hard to see)
pits

GOR IR DAIN - Detects “magic” on
screen?

ZO IR NETA - Anchors the map at
the point of casting so that as you move
around, the map view stays at the an¬
chored position.

It’s REALLY easy to kill ANY
dragon. Here’s how:

1) Prepare all your players with MON
IR VEN spells (mega poison cloud)

2) Use the green freeze life box (on
the dragon)

3) Cast the spells, and then double
up on each player (ie. each player casts
two spells for a total of 8)

4) Wait... dinner will be served soon.

Using the Vorpal Blade: If you don’t

have both Vorpal Blades, you can in¬
crease hits/time by passing the weapon
back and forth between the two attack¬
ing players, (ie. hit, then pass blade to
character 2, hit and pass back to charac¬
ter 1 etc.

Contrary to what you may have read
elsewhere, everything is affected by
fireballs, including knights and drag¬
ons. The only exceptions are slime,
black flames, and the thing that pops up

fied.

If you’re tired of waiting for morn¬
ing to come, enter and exit the guild.

Bard's Tale III - The Thief of Fate

For a bit of fun tell the guard at the
Mad Gods temple HAMBURGER.

Bard’s Tale II - The Destiny Kniaht

Find a band of illusionists and kill
off the front line, have your spellcaster
conjure DISRUPT ILLUSION, and you
will keep disbelieving and gaining ex¬
perience.

AMIGA ANNUAL 85

Games

from the floor.

Crystals of Arborea

Having trouble finding your Crystal
Balls?

Go to the main character screen,
select Jarel then click on the bottom
icon.

Now press CTRL and V to get full
life points plus all the special abilities.

Drakken

Create a new set of characters using
procedure described in the manual, but
with the following changes. When you
are asked for the first name, type SU¬
PERVISOR and press Return. Now
enter a normal name and continue the
creation process. When you use this
team of characters, the game works as
usual except that when you press F10,
all wounds are healed and dead charac¬
ters are resurrected.

Other sources say when the pro¬
gram asks you for first character type
31415927, hit Return then type SU¬
PERVISOR. Then give your character
a name.

All armour, treasure and weapons
inside palaces are restocked every time
you enter. Send the strongest character
in to grab the equipment, then distrib¬
ute it among your band. If you need
some quick gold, do this repeatedly,
then go see the weaponsmith.

Dungeon Master

Go to the dungeon entrance and face
the door. Cast the spell OHEW RA.You
will see someone interesting.

To advance ninjas a level, stand in a
hall and throw your weapons. Then get
them, and repeat. This also works with
magic and fighter levels. Cast a spell at
the air, or slash and bash until you gain
a level.

Here are some undocumented spells:

YA BRO ROS - Leaves a trail of
footprints

VI BRO - Shield poison

DES IR SAR - Darkness

FUL BRO NETA - Fire ball shield

OH KATH RA - Lightning Bolt

ZO - Open doors

DES EW - Weakens non-corporal
(undead) beings

Faery Tale Adventure

Take a save game file and use a PD
program such as NewZap to patch byte
18 to a non-zero value. Load your saved
game, and now these cheat options are
enabled:

Arrow Keys Move rapidly over any
terrain

B Summon Gold Swan

R Rescue Princess

= Display coordinates

FI 0 Location in coordinates

F9 Increase time by 1 hour

Sometimes you can accumulate all
the treasure you want by going near the
item, pressing the space bar, and then
continuing to hit T. You’ll receive an
infinite supply of that treasure.

Save your position in a dungeon.
Then go through it until you run out of
keys. When you restore your game, all
the doors will be open and you will
have a new set of keys. Also works in
caves.

Jump on the turtle and start slashing.
Your bravery points will go up to infin¬
ity and it doesn’t hurt you or the turtle.

On the island with the Crystal Cas¬
tle, press the right mouse button while
talking to the Sorceress and your luck
will go up to 65. ‘ASK’ing the Sorcer¬
ess several times will usually boost
your luck.

If running low on Green keys, use a
secret entrance for the fort. It’s on the
left side, almost level with the door.

Beating the Turtle is not beating, it is
pushing, so push the turtle across the
land, to use it in special places: The
turtle was programmed in asbestos, and
can swim in Lava. It can be used to
enter the black citadel at the south.
Also, while it is present, you are not
attacked, but by the time you have the
turtle, you are already invincible.

Kings Quest III

When casting a spell and asked to
recite a verse just hit RETURN. The
King’s Quest series of games uses the
debug command and interpreter for the
programmers (up to KQIII); KQIV
doesn’t have it because of the tremen¬
dous size of the game. Have some fun
and press the “ALT’ key then “D” then
“Return or Enter” (maybe twice) then

type in either GET OBJECT (and type
in a random number) or “TP” for trans¬
port (and a random number) and see
what happens. It works, and if you’re
tired of looking for a certain object the
“Get Object” function is great!

Legend of Faerghil

Here are the answers to some of the
questions and riddles you’ll be asked
while you’re rummaging around in the
dungeons of Faerghil.

In the Elven Palace

Q: Who is Findal’s youngest uncle?

A: SCAGNAR

Q: Who is Findal’s father?

A: FIND AIL

Q: Who is Findal’s great parent?

A: ALGANOR

In the Dragon Servant's Temple

Q: What lies between myself and
my opposite?

A: AND

In the Castle

Q: What tries to go up, but stops
short, has but one foot, and can not
walk?

A: STAIRS

In the ruins of Ancient Oracle

Q: The more it gets, the more it eats,
and has it eaten all, it dies. What is it?

A: FIRE

Q: I talk without soul, I hear without
ears, I talk without mouth, and I’m
born in air. What am I?

A: ECHO

Q: Two little windows, they have no
glass, they stand together like flowers
in grass. Two little windows, they show
us the world, they show us the stars, the
forest, the field, the fold. What could
they be?

A: EYES □

AMIGA ANNUAL 86

Games

Flying High

Check out these high
flying hints and tips
for your favourite
flight-sims...

Afterburner

While playing, type TOGETHER
IN ELECTRIC DREAMS’. Then, try
the following:

< - Go down a level> - Go up a
levelG - More MisslesT- Less MisslesN
- Extra Lives

Fly to the top of the screeen to avoid
missies. Slow down on levels 8 and 17
to avoid rocks. Go full speed to dodge
infra-red missies.

F29 Retaliator

For your name, enter THE DIDY
MEN’. Click on the COLONEL icon
and hit return. Now not only do you get
infinite weapons, but hitting ENTER
causes the plane to land automatically.

F/A-18 Interceptor

Taxi down U.S. 101, turn right at
Highway 92, pull up to the EA Head¬
quarters and blow it away!

In mission 6, once you’ve fired all
your missiles, you can land on the
Shadow Sub (if it’s still afloat) and it
will refuel and rearm you.

Here’s another interesting trick. Se¬
lect option “2 Free Flight, no enemy
confrontation” from the main menu.
Then select zero instead of 1 to 4.
The screen will go into a spiral and
scroll way south to 34 by 117 de¬
grees, placing your plane somewhere
without a runway. This happens to
be in the middle of Edwards Air
Force Base, where the F/A-18 was
flight tested. To take off you have to
use the afterburners. 117 degrees is
the furthest south you'll be able to
fly, but you can go in other direc¬
tions.

Falcon

Press CONTROL-X (with the shift
key for upper case X) for increased
afterburners, eight sidewinder missiles,
and a full magazine.

Also, if you have trouble landing,
select END MISSION after complet¬
ing your mission.

For a perfect landing every time,
hold the HELP key down about 10 - 20
feet above runway.

Fighter Bomber

When you enter your name, use
‘BUCKAROO’. The computer will
say,’Oh No!, it’s a BUCKAROO!’.
Now you can try all of the 16 missions.

Flying Shark

Not exactly a flight-sim, I know, but
on the high score table, enter ‘HSC’ for
unlimited lives, or ‘KDJ’ for invulner¬
ability.

Wings

Sure, the planes are low tech in this
one. But it's a top game. Here are some
tactical tips. First, each letter of the
word WINGS on the main menu does
something. To access them hold down
the CTRL Shift and Alt keys on the left
side of the keyboard while holding
down the right mouse button. While
holding down these keys and button,
you can click on each of the letters in
“wings” with the left mouse button.
Each letter does the following: “W”

toggles the music on and off, “I” turns
the CAPS LOCK key into an autofire
button, “N” no flight school missions
required for new pilots, “G” Guess,
“S” Saves game without having to exit

To access the other cheats you must
go to flight school.To get an awesome
pilot (once only) click on the bullseye
on the airplane at the top of the Bight
school menu. The screen will either
flash or you will get a requester asking
if you want to quit (say no). Then
create a new pilot. Enter the name
“Orca The Killer Tomato” (without the
quotes, and remember it’s case sensi¬
tive). Orca is all ready and doesn’t
need flight school.

To access a menu of options (much
of which is no longer useful or active)
create a new pilot. Enter the name “
Who is The Riddler” Leave off the
quotes but be sure and type the two
leading spaces. DO NOT HIT RE¬
TURN to enter the name, hit ESCape
instead. Then just follow the prompts.
If you run from a hard disk you can hit
LEFT-AMIGA ESCape to toggle to
the Workbench screen and back.

Game Tips:

BALLOON BUSTING - The first thing to
do in Balloon Busting missions is to
take out the AA gun. It isn’t too hard so
give it a try.

DOG FIGHTS - When involved in a dog
fight with other planes alwaysattack
from above. This is because if you
attack from below the other plane
will climb which is very annoying.
By attacking from above you drive
the other plane down rather than up.

BEING TAILED - When you are be¬
ing tailed hold the joystick to the
bottom-right. You should turn off
to the right and out of the other
plane’s line of fire.

And remember - if you’re in a
terminal situation, always REBOOT
your machine before your demise is
registered on your flight record. □

AMIGA ANNUAL 87

Games

You just can’t beat a top class race-simulation.
Here are some turbo-charged tips to boost your
performance.

Chase HQ

During the game, hold down the left
mouse button, the joystick button, and
type ‘GROWLER’. From now on hit
‘T’ for full time. Also, at the beginning
of every stage, hit the space bar imme¬
diately for free nitro. To make your
steering easier, use the ‘Z’ and ‘X’
keys.

Chase HQ II

Pause the game and type ‘IN A
GARDENIN’. Now pressing ‘T’ will
reset your time. Hold down H and F5
while the game is loading, now all the
roadside obstacles will dissapear.

Crazy Cars II

The routes to take for each stage are
listed below:

Stage 1: Take road 15 on your right,
then road 70 on your left, and keep
going. Stage 2: Take road 191 to your
right, then road 666 on the left, and
then road 160 on your left and keep
going.

Driving Force

When the main menu is showing,
use the key pointer and click on the two
letter I’s in driving. When you start the
game, your vehicle will not go off the
side of the track, but it can still be hit by
other cars.

Try this one too - on the selection
screen, click on the two ‘I’s of the word
driving with your mouse pointer. Then
when you are ready to start hold down
the ‘HELP’ key until the game has
finished loading. You should now see
the words ‘YOU CHEAT’ appear in
the nationality boxes of the races, and

you will qualify for the next race re¬
gardless of the position you finish in.
When you start the game, your vehicle
will not go off of the side of the track,
but it can be hit by other cars.

Hard Drivin’

Get to full speed (preferably but not
necessary) and press ‘N’ for neutral.
Now you can cruise along at full speed
with easy steering and invulnerability.
As long as you stay in neutral you will
have unlimited time as well.

Another trick is to repeatedly hit the
4 key (4th gear) until the program has
an error. Continue with the right mouse
button. Repeat until you get a high
score.

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge

During a two player game type
player one’s name as FIELDS OF FIRE
and player two’s as IN A BIG COUN¬
TRY. This eliminates the lead to qualify
in the Top Ten and allows you to crawl
around the track at a much safer speed.
Try player’s names as MOSTER and
SEVENTEEN for an especially rocky
ride.The codes for the first few levels
are as follows:

The Skids

Peaches

Liverpool

Bagley

E Bow

Outrun

While playing enter ‘RED
BARCHETTA’ to access the cheat
mode, then try:

T - Increase time by 10 seconds
(after 100 secs time looks garbled)

S - Skip Level

B - Restart current level (and get
bonus points)

In Stage 3, take road 285 on the right
and road 60 to your left, and keep
going. In Stage 4, take road 70 on your
right, road 54 on your left, road 25 on
your right, road 10 to the left, and,
finally road 180 on your right, and
keep going.

Power Drift

Select any course except D and win
all the races (you must win them to get
a gold medal-finishing in the top 3 is
not good enuff!) Collect all the gold
medals and you enter a bonus round on
a secret course with you in control of
the F-14 Tomcat from Afterburner with
no collision detection. Do the same
thing on course D and collect all the
gold medals and this time you will be in
control of the Super Hang-On bike!

Supercars

Level 2 Password = ODIE
Level 3 Password = BIGC
For tons of money ($500,000), try
‘RICH’ as a password!

Test Drive

Hold down the button while going
around turns and you will not hit the
wall or fall off the cliff (other cars can
still hit you).

Test Drive il

Try typing the following during the
game for interesting results:

aerf - Fast acceleration and quick
braking (and free life) - Keep retyping
it for lots of lives.

gass - Jump to gas station with
amazing average time and score
gasst - Jump to gas station and use
real average time and score

bruce - Change sign on level 2 from
‘Play Grand Prix Circuit’ to ‘Bruce
Dawson Wrote This’6 □

AMIGA ANNUAL 88

Games

Sharp Shooten '

Pump up those high scores in your favourite shoot-’em-up with this handy guide...

Awesome

At the energy swap screen move the pointer to the
shield icon. Now hold down ‘ + ’ on the numeric key¬
pad and press fire. The screen should flash.

Pressing the Function keys during play will give
you all the weapons.

FI disables your enemies and F6 will restore your
energy.

Better Dead Than Alien

If you are about to be hit from an incoming alien
shot, press ESC to pause the game, move your ship out
of the way, and press N to resume.Type ‘CHAMP’ on
the options screen, then press the HELP key.You’ll be
shown a list of cheat keys.The password for the last
level is ‘QUARANTINE’.

Cybernoid

When viewing the title page type ‘RAISTLIN’ then
press the space bar for unlimited ships. Then, press
‘N’ to advance a level.Or, try defining your keys as ‘ Y
X E S’ (in that order) for unlimited ships.

Cybernoid II

On the title page, type ‘NECRONOMICON’ for
unlimited lives. Pause the game and hit ‘N’ to advance
to the next level, or ‘L’ for the current level.

Denaris

To enter the training mode, simply press ‘Z’ after
game select. Then plug the mouse into port 2, and hold
the right mouse button while it loads.

Exolon

For infinite lives type in ‘ad astra’ (lowercase with
space) on the high score screen.

Goldrunner

Type ‘easymode’ on the high-score table. From
now on, F9 skips levels and makes you invulnerable.
F8 turns off the cheat mode.

Hybris

Load the game as usual and don’t do anything until
the high score screen appears. Type ‘COMMANDER’
and then press the fire button. After a few moments
press F10. If your ship flickers you are now invulner¬

able, and have infinite expansions and smart bombs.

F1-F5 = Other Six Levels of ‘expansion’ (you can
still capture the capsules)

F8 = Advance a level (There are three)

F10 = Turn cheat mode on/off

You cannot get a high score with the cheat mode on.

R-Type

Enter ‘SUMITA.’ on the high score table for unlim¬
ited lives.

Rotor

Here are some codes for higher levels:

Level 1 - GAG 2 - LIP 3 - FLY 4 - MEN 5 - AWE
6 - TNT

Also, ‘PIT’ allows access to the battle simulator.

Xenon

Let yourself be killed off at Level 2, Stage 2 and all
the aliens in the round will be destroyed.

Xenon II

What And Where To Buy

LEVEL 1, SHOP 1: Buy Health, Super Nashwan
LEVEL 1, SHOP 2: Sell Rear Shot, Buy Double
Shot and Side Shot

LEVEL 2, SHOP 1: Buy Side Shot
LEVEL 2, SHOP 2: Sell Side Shot
LEVEL 3, SHOP 1: Buy Health and Rear Shot.
LEVEL 3, SHOP 2: Sell Rear Shot, Buy Side Shot,
Laser, and Power Up

LEVEL 4, SHOP 1: Sell Rear Shot, Sell Side Shot
Try to stick with your best weapon, and end up with
2 Cannons, 2 Lasers,and either Side Shot or Rear
Shot. Always spend your money in the shops as you
cannot take leftover cash.

Awesome

AMIGA ANNUAL 89

Games

Halfway and End Monsters

SNAIL: Shoot at eye, avoid mines

ALIEN: Shoot eyes at either side at top. Scroll back
and shoot centre eye

SPIDER: Destroy as much web as possible. Fly
down to face spider and fire continuously.

CRAYFISH: Travels in figure eight. Stay below and
fire in its face.

SNAKE: Attacks from left of screen.

DRAGON: Shoot the side heads first, then tail, then
main head.

HEAD: Shoot both eyes, avoiding laser fire and
extending tongue. Shoot at head when tongue goes in.

TANK: Use missiles

GRAND SPACESHIP: Shoot all cannons until totally

destroyed,

ITEM

COST

COMMENTS

Advice

200

Only useful after Level 1

Speedup

500

Essential to survival

Half Health

500

Restores half your energy

Autofire

500

Needed if joystick has none

Nashwan

600

10 Seconds of sheer heaven

Full Health

1000

Restores full energy

Rear Shot

1000

Very effective on later levels

Small Mine

1000

Useless

Side Shot

1000

Cant be used with Rear Shot

Electroball

1200

Too sensitive to control

Power-Up

2000

Double bullet size

Large Mine

3000

Useless

Double Shot

3000

Recommended on later levels

Cannon

4000

Effective when using two

Dive

4000

Waste of Money, but fun

Missies

4000

Weak to start with

Laser

4000

Awesome - using 2 or more

Drone

4500

Two slow

Flamer

5000

Extremely limited range

Bomb

5500

Limited range but powerful

Extra Life

6000

You’ll need lots of these!

Homers

6000

4 slow but powerful missies

Protection

6000

Doesn’t do much

Bitmap Shades 6000

Darkens Screen - useless

X-Out

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single orange coloured laser, drag it up to the face of
the shop owner and keep clicking the left mouse
button. You’ll get $500,000 credits. □

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CDTV

plete with digitised pictures.

The best application in
this area so far has been the
release of a series of Karaoke
disks - the words of your
favourite songs flashed up
on your TV screen as the CD
quality music pumps through
your stereo. Good fun, but
the CD-TV is capable of so
much more.

There are interactive
books, with colour pictures
appearing on your TV screen
as the text is read by a genu¬
ine human voice - none of
this robotic sounding syn¬
thesised speech. This is for
real. Your kids can move the
pointer on the screen and
highlight any word, and the
voice will read it again -
great reading practice!

Another early program is
a world atlas. Ever wanted to
check out a street map of
New York? Or London?
They’re all here on the disk,
as well as the standard world
maps you ’ll find in any atlas.
The data storage potential of
a compact disk is tremen¬
dous.

The Grolier Encyclope¬
dia gives some idea of the
CDTV’s potential. All 24

volumes of the paper version
of the encyclopedia fit onto a
single disk, together with
real-life sounds that play
through your TV speakers as
you read the information on
the screen. Good stuff, espe¬
cially if you want to get edu¬
cated.

But how about some seri¬
ous fun? As you’ll see on the
following pages, there are
some startling possibilities.
Like a jet-fighter simulation
with real life CD quality
sound.

The future for the CDTV
looks bright. There are ru¬
mours of a small add on board
that will let you view
Kodak’s new PhotoCD discs,
there’s a Genlock that lets
you add titles to your home
videos, there’s a 24-bit col¬
our board on the way that
will let you display four mil¬
lion colours on the screen at
once ... there’s even an add
on keyboard that lets you use
the unit as a standard home
computer.

Got the picture? Good.
Then read on for more de¬
tails. □

I f you haven’t heard about
Commodore’s CDTV,
then here’s the place to
start. Forget all the jargon
about “interactive multime¬
dia, and “Commodore Dy¬
namic Total Vision.” Here
are the facts.

The name CDTV means
exactly what it says. It’s a
machine that actually lets
you play those shiny silver
compact discs on your telly -
and in the process introduces
a whole new world of com¬
puter entertainment and edu¬
cation.

The CD-TV looks for all
the world like a standard
compact disc player, in a
smart, matte black case.
Looks can be deceptive.
There’s a complete Amiga
500 lurking under the hood.
What we’ve got here, folks,
is the perfect blend of Amiga
power with CD data storage.
Not only that, the machine
also accepts disks in the
CD+G standard - in other
words, music CDs with built
in graphics. These babies
are on the market already in
your local music store - read
the small print, and you’ll
notice some discs come com¬

AMIGA ANNUAL 91

CDTV SOFTWARE REVIEW

THE NEW GROLIER
ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

You don’t need big muscles to hold
a twenty-one volume encylopedia in
one hand. Not if it’s The New Grolier
Electronic Encyclopedia , anyway. Be¬
cause this is the CDTV version, an
ordinary looking silver compact disc
filled with enough information to stack
a traditional bookcase.

Imagine for a moment an Encyclo¬
pedia with sounds. Bird calls, for exam¬
ple. Choose a bird by punching in its
name on the index screen, then sit back
and wait a moment while the CDTV
finds every reference to your favourite
bird on the entire disk. Try “Finch.” A
list of birds in the finch family appears,
including headings marked “Pictures”
and “Sounds”. Choose the Sound op¬
tion and you’ll hear the twitterings of a
genuine finch - choose the “Pictures”
and you’ll see a colour picture as well.
That’s a trick your musty Britannica
would have a little trouble matching.

There’s more. Remember the words
“That’s one small step for a man, one
giant leap for mankind”? You can hear
them as often as you like, though I guess
once or twice a day is probably enough.
Then there’s John F. Kennedy’s “Ask

not what your country can do for you”
speech - well, the best thirty seconds of
it, anyway. And what about Martin
Luther King’s immortal “Ahh had a
dream”? It’s included too, though again
only the most famous lines.

This is multi-media at it’s best. You
don’t just see pictures of these guys and
read about them - you can hear them as
well. The impact is dramatic, though
the sound selections on the disc are
limited.

Even more impressive is the CDTV’s
ability to cross reference ANY word in
ANY article on the disc. As I browse
through the article on Martin Luther
King, for example, my curiousity is
aroused about the original Martin
Luther. To find out more, I simply move
the arrow pointer onto the text area of
the screen until it highlights the word
“Luther.” Press the button, and mo¬
ments later there’s a list of 27 items in
which the name “Luther” appears. One
is devoted entirely to Martin Luther, so
I point and click. In moments, the infor¬
mation is on the screen.

“Martin Luther was a German theo¬
logian and a major leader of the protes-

tant reformation. The son of a Saxon
miner, he was bom on November 10,
1483. He entered the University of Erfurt
when he was 18 years old.”

Now I’m the first to admit that my
knowledge of geography is worse than
rudimentary, and when I studied history
as a lad it was a source of great frustra¬
tion. Where, for example, is Erfurt?
And what sort of place is it? Three clicks
later I find that Erfurt is located in East
Central Germany on the Gera River.
The current population is around
214,000, and rainfall averages 508mm
each year.

Okay, I’ll admit it. I didn’t need to
know that. But finding out was fun, and
a mental picture of young Luther run¬
ning to his lectures in raincoat and
gumboots adds a bit more life to the
story.

In essence, the CDTV makes brows¬
ing so easy that you will find yourself
learning in a much less stmctured man¬
ner - more breadth, though perhaps at
the expense of a degree of depth.

The New Grolier Electronic Ency¬
clopedia is the first of many reference
works slated for release on the CDTV.
And it’s very good. Even so, there are
limitations. Sure, the disc contains the
equivalent to 21 hardcover books, but
you won’t find EVERYTHING you
need. Not by a long shot. When you
want a picture of Elle McPherson, it
won’t be there. When you want to listen
to Gough Whitlam’s famous speech on
the steps of parliament house, you won’t
find it. Six hundred megabytes of data
storage is big - but not that big. Having
said that, there’s one feature of the
Grolier CD that’s priceless - it actually
makes learning fun. The New Grolier
Electronic Encyclopedia is expensive,
though you might find some retailers
will bundle it as a special deal when you
buy a CDTV. □

AMIGA ANNUAL 92

Tuifohane

your

CDTV Keyboard Adaptor

Here’s a handy low cost gadget if
you’ve got an A-2000 keyboard lying
round the house - a handy CDTV adap¬
tor. This nifty lead lets you run your
keyboard straight into the socket on the
back of the CDTV, which will then run
as a fully fledged Amiga compatible
computer - all for just $29.95.

The cream coloured cable is around
1.5 metres long. One one end there’s a
socket for your keyboard lead, on the

other end a plug that fits the socket on
the rear of your CDTV.

In use, the keyboard is flawless.
Unless you’re running a rare text-based
CDTV application, you’ll probably be
running an Amiga disk booted through
an external drive. In this case, you’ll
find a whole new freedom exploring the
CLI with your keyboard. I tried it out
with the Fish Disk Collection CD - a
compact disk containing 480 public
domain Fish Disks - with great results.
Without the keyboard you’ll find the
PD disk is a bit of a nuisance. The best
you can do is uszDiskmasterlo copy the
files you want onto an external disk,
then run them on another Amiga. Now,
however, all the programs on the disk
are a going concern - a mind expanding
experience, with almost 400 megabytes
to explore. As I said, if you’ve already
got the keyboard, the CDTV Keyboard
Adaptor is an essential purchase.RRP
$29.95

CDTV Smartcard

Ever wanted to save your game po¬
sition so you could come back and play
tomorrow? Of course you have. That’s
what the 64K Smartcard lets you do. If
you’ve ever wondered what that little
slot is for on the front of your CDTV,
here’s the answer. The Smart Card acts

CDTV

exactly like a solid state disk drive, and
allows you to save game positions and
high scores with ease, as well as to
personalise certain programs. We’ve
tested the smart card with games like
Spirit of Excalibur, and it works like a
charm.

CDTV Genlock

The Commodore CDTV Genlock is
now available, and retails for $399.
With the genlock in place you ’ll soon be
able to use your CDTV for video-titling
applications, as well as capturing the
output from other CDTV programs on
Video.

Try it the other way round
Amiga 690 for ’92 release

If you already have an Amiga 500,
maybe you’re wondering how you can
tap in to the world of CDTV. Here’s
some good news! This year Commo¬
dore are releasing the A-690 CD unit.
Originally slated as a simple standalone
CD drive, the unit has been radically re¬
designed, and now features most of the
CDTV’s internal chips and memory. If
Commodore manage to bring the unit
out at the price suggested to me, there
will be a mad scramble for stocks. And
that’s good for the future of the CDTV.

“The Brick”- Infra-Red Trackball and Joystick Interface

Perhaps the most exciting piece of CDTV gear I’ve tested lately is the long awaited “brick”, a combination track-ball/joystick/controller that
replaces or supplements your standard CDTV remote controller.

The unit is about twice the size of the regular controller, and certainly isn’t as elegant - hence the nickname “brick” when the unit was under
development. Two standard joystick sockets are mounted on the front edge of the unit. A golf-ball sized trackball sits on the right hand side at
the top, with two large buttons along the upper rear edge of the unit in easy reach. A numeric keypad covers the left hand area of the top of the
case.

So what does it do? Number 1, it makes moving the pointer around the screen an absolute breeze. Compared to the slow movements with
the traditional controller, the trackball really flies. I tested the unit with Mypaint, a kid’s colouring program, and the results were great - far less
frustration in making menu selections and carrying out operations. In drawing mode, it could even manage smoothly curved lines, a clear
impossibility with the old arrow-buttons.

Secondly, and just as importantly, the Brick lets you use a standard Amiga-style joystick. Let’s face it - playing Shadow of the Beast with the
standard CDTV controller just isn’t a realistic proposition. But now, with a joystick beaming infra-red signals through the brick, it’s beast slaying
at its very best. There’s no perceptible delay in signal transmission, and the action is fast and smooth. It’s a bonus when you’re playing standard
Amiga games loaded from external disk too -1 played Rodlands with no hitches at all, sitting comfortably halfway across the room. RRP $199.00

AMIGA ANNUAL 93

CDTV Games

I like my CDTV. But then
again, I like anything with
flashing lights and bits that
open and shut. And I like
games. So let’s take a moment
to review the state of play in
CDTV games. Are they
different? Are they better? Are
they worth all the fuss?
Some titles are simply
enhanced versions of popular
Amiga games - which is not
necessarily a bad thing.

Falcon

Popular Amiga F-16 jet-sim, Fal¬
con , has undergone a similar treatment.
Again, the main improvements come
from the ability of the CD to store huge
chunks of digitised sound which the
game can access instantly. As I fly, I’m
in direct radio contact with my base. My
co-pilot speaks too - a back seat driver
who complains whenever I do anything

Xenon 2

Xenon 2, for example, is a top rank¬
ing Amiga “shoot-’em-up.” Set in a
spidery alien universe, the original game
was fast-paced and exciting. It still is.
And wait til you hear the soundtrack on

rash. Just like my wife, who always
complains when I drive at Mach 2.

Surprisingly, the improved sound
effects add remarkably to the atmos¬
phere of the game. The commands and
warnings that crackle through the speak¬
ers are startlingly real, and add a whole
new dimension to the game. Somehow,
sounds bring a game to life even more
than graphics -
there’s a doc¬
toral thesis
waiting to be
written when
somebody fig¬
ures out why.
But it’s a fact -
the era of
“talkies” has
arrived, and
there’s no turn¬
ing back.

the CDTV version! It’s astounding. You
can choose any one of seven pulsing
tracks, which feed directly from the CD
into your stereo system.

There are other minor enhancements
- the alien shopkeeper you meet be¬
tween levels now speaks, introducing
himself in a gravelly alien voice as
“Colin.” Nice touch. All in all .Xenon 2
makes good use of the CDTV’s sound
abilities without skimping on gameplay.

The Case of the
Cautious Condor

This is a game with a different pedi¬
gree altogether - it was originally re¬
leased on CD-ROM in Japan. The game
is set in the summer of 1937, and you are
part of an elite group enjoying the maiden
flight of The Condor, a luxurious flying
boat. When one of the passengers is
mysteriously murdered, it’s your job to
uncover the dastardly murderer.

The game features over 700 hand
drawn comic-book style pictures, to¬
gether with a professionally recorded
“radio-drama” style soundtrack.

The overall effect is impressive - an
interactive, illustrated radio play.
There’s no animation, though illustra¬
tions fade in and out on cue in overlaid
panels on the screen.

So what can I say? The CDTV games
that have been released so far are good
fun - I’m enjoying them a lot, especially
with my ears. But so far, I have a feeling
that developers are only just scratching
the surface. With 550 megabytes of data
at your fingertips - as well as all the
flashing lights and bits that slide in and
out - the sky is the limit. (Our copies of
Xenon //, Falcon , and The Case of
theCautious Condor came from The
Hard Disk Cafe, phone 02 979 5833).
From most CDTV dealers. □

AMIGA ANNUAL 94

CDTV

INTERACTIVE

BOOKS

Mudpuddle

- is a kid’s book on disc. Meet a
walking mud-puddle that constantly am¬
bushes a little girl - until she gets the
better of it. You can ask your CDTV to
read your favourite passages, to explain
or pronounce unfamiliar words, and
even to identify objects in the accompa¬
nying pictures. There’s music too, with
sound effects, and the text and audio
background can run in either Spanish or
English - great for learning a second
language!

Cinderella

- is another title in the Discis series.
Read the story of Cinderella, her ugly
step sisters and her good ol’ fairy god¬
mother like never before, with colour¬
ful interactive graphics, and a full nar¬
rative track too.

A Long Hard Day at the Ranch

- is also in the Discis series. Written
by Audrey Nelson, this story is written
in the form of a young boy’s letter home
from a holiday on his Aunt’s Ranch.
Desperate bandits, runaway cattle and
wild adventures fill the story - while the
accompanying pictures show the more
mundane reality. Designed for ages 5
and upward, all the usual interactive
book features are included.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

- by Beatrix Potter is also available
from Discis. With Potter’s original il¬
lustrations digitised on disc, follow Pe¬
ter Rabbit as Mean Mr McGregor chases
him around the garden. Find out how he
loses his clothes and is helped by friendly
sparrows. The kids will love this one.

The Paper Bag Princess

- was demonstrated at the World of

Commodore launch of the CDTV - now
it’s finally available. A traditional fairy
tale with a beautiful princess, a hand¬
some prince and a nasty dragon, if you
saw the demonstration, you'll be want¬
ing to get your very own copy! □

Stop Press

NewAmigas expected this year!

C ommodore have kept us in the dark as to the
exact nature of the new machines expected
this year. One thing is for certain, at least one
model will arrive before Christmas. However,
others may turn up in early 1993 - or even sooner.
Possible model numbers of these new machines
now include the 300,300 Plus, 600,800 Classic,
1000 Plus, 1100, 2200, 3000 Plus and 4000.
Take your pick. Our guess is at least three of the
above mentioned numbers are correct.

Certain Arrival

We are unsure of the model number - it could
be called the 300 Plus, however other sources
say it may be the Amiga 600. The World of
Commodore Show in July will see the launch of
this new machine, which is essentially an up¬
graded Amiga 500. ( see bottom picture).

It will still use the same 68000 processor and
have Amiga 500 Plus functionality. There’s a new
custom chip, called GAYLE, who will look after
the built-in IDE hard drive (optional?). One mega¬
byte of CHIP Ram is standard, however there is
no expansion-port on the left side. In its place
you’ll find a new "FLASH-RAM/ROM-MEMORY-
CARD" port.

You will be able to fit 2.5" hard drives, ranging
from 20 Megs to 180 Megs in size, internally. Ail
chips, except the Kickstart ROM, are surface
mounted. This means that there are no sockets
available to use third party add-ons or the kludgy
memory expansion that requires piggy backing
RAMs. It also means the manufacture cost is
down.

The A500/A1000 style side expansion port is
no longer. There is no place to connect expansion
devices that use this port. Perhaps Commodore
is going to try and corner the add on market.
There is a TV-Modulator built in and an F-BAS
Port too (who knows what it does?). RRP is said
to be under $500.

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New A2000?

A lot less likely, but a certain replacement for
the A2000 if it does arrive, is the AI 000 Plus or
A1100. Features on this non-existent model in¬
clude a slimline 286 style case, V2 Roms, built-
in SCSI controller, AA chip set compatibility -
more on that later, surface mounted components
(read low price), two expansion slots and one PC
slot. Generally 32-bit A3000 style technology in
a smaller box and at a much lower price. Sounds
like a great machine. Where is it?

Talk of a faster A3000 has been around since
the day this beast first shipped. Everything from
50Mhz 040’s to new RISC technology have been
suggested options. The best we could come up
with was the following specifications: A slim line
486DX style case, RS-232 Appletalk style net¬
work adaptor, DSP co-processor offering voice
recognition, data compression, 16 bit sound,
modem support and more, headphone jack, three
expansion slots, one video slot and two PC slots,
AA chip set compatibility and built in SCSI sup¬
port.

New Chipset

One thing is for sure, a new chipset is in the
pipeline. The improvements are a combination of
catch-up technology and more additions than
you ever dreamed of. The new graphics chip (no
name as yet) offers 2MB of chip RAM expandable
(thanks to Alice) up to eight megabytes!

Internally we’re talking full 32 bit, which means
extra speed for certain. In high resolution mode,
we’ll enjoy a flicker free 256 colour display from
a 24 bit colour palette. A new extended HAM
mode of 256,000 colours, with talk of an optional
full 24 bit display. Refresh speed is up to 72Hz.
Workbench applications will enjoy palette shar¬
ing. Better sprite support is possible and double
ghosting will be a thing of the past. Lisa will offer
the full 24 bit displays we’ve been after. No
specifications on her as yet. □

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The A600 or the A300Plus?

AMIGA ANNUAL 95

Contributors

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us have to use PCs and the vileness of MS-
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PC Review which tries to dear up the mys¬
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try to make the life of the PC user less of a
total misery. At your newsagents now or
subscribe to the usual address.

Every month from your
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We publish three magazines. Professional Amiga User, Austra¬
lian Commodore and Amiga Review and Australian PC Review .

We do have regular writers, but your contributions are wel¬
come.

We can accept material by modem, or you can send in a disk
containing a clean ASCII text file - that is, one without any spe¬
cial formatting.

Pictures, screen grabs or illustrations may be included - be sure
to provide a text file with suggested captions. The most impor¬
tant thing to include is your daytime phone number.

If you’re not sure of the style of writing, try reading articles by
our staff writers and adopt a similar style and approach. Readers
need to know how to get more out of a package, how to over¬
come limilations and find new ways to create end results more
efficiently.

Product reviews should be co-ordinated with the editorial of¬
fice. Materials received may not be returned. Do not send us
your original. Make a backup copy before posting us your disk.

For more information contact the editors on:

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and Professional Amiga User : (02) 879 7455

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TALK TO YOUR

EVISION

CDTV AVAILABLE FROM
Myer, Grace Bros, Harvey Norman, Bing Lee
and the following dealers

NSW : The Hard Disk Cafe’, Shop 4 Computers, Free
Home Demo, Casino Computers, Orana Home Business
Center, Leeton Audiotronics, Chanticleer Video
Computer Center.

Vic : High Technology, Maxwell’s, Cranboume
Computers, Webbs Electronics, Jennings Discounts,
Computa Magi, Roylane, Frank Day & Associates, St.
Albans Home Entertainment.

Qld : United Computers, Tropical TV Services,

City Computer Center, Active Computers.

SA: Harris Scarfe, Pick’n’pay Hypermarket.

Tas : Angus & Robertson, Quadrant Computer Center,

INTERACTIVE

MULTIMEDIA

The Floppy Shop

WA : Headlam Computers, Narrogin Computers,
Computer Comer, Regional Computers

Phone Commodore (02) 428 7777 for a dealer near you

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